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Re:Deno Is Webby by c0balt on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @09:25PM (#30706431)
How are NoSQL databases "bad" and should in general? The term "NoSQL" in itself is very inclusive and might include databases such as redis, elasticsearch or apache cassandra.a

It's important to choose the right tool for the job and SQL/ relational DBs fit many usecases but are not always the right choice. Especially when handling massive amounts of data, that can fit into structures such as wide-column stores, databases like scylla or columnar storage with clickhouse, can help massively.

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Re:Deno Is Webby by russellbeattie on Thursday March 17, 2022 @03:21AM (#30708478)
NoSQL is a good solution for the 1% of projects that need it. It sounds like you had great success with it, congrats.

Otherwise, it just ends up being a big flat in-memory table with a badly implemented version of SQL welded on top, written by developers who never bothered to learn SQL or database management in the first place. Then a bunch of fad followers jump on the bandwagon, and before you know it, we have a decade of idiots blathering on about "web scale" technologies.

That's the debacle I'm talking about. Millions of man hours wasted.

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