Most $100B+ companies (e.g. Google, Meta, Amazon) were built primarily using relational databases for the first 10-15 years.
Re:Things to know about databases
by packetlost on Monday June 27, 2022 @02:30PM
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Postgres' JSON implementation perfectly adheres to the JSON spec, which actually sucks if you need to support things like NaNs, Inf, etc. It's a good option, but it doesn't work for all datasets.
Re:Things to know about databases
by slaymaker1907 on Monday June 27, 2022 @02:45PM
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Wow, TIL that NaN isn't valid JSON.
I think a valid reason for not choosing a relational database is if your business plan requires that you grow to be a $100B+ company with hundreds of millions of users. Otherwise, you will probably be fine with RDBMS, even if it will require some optimizing in the future.