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Re:NoSQL – Back to the Future or Yet Another DB Feature? by taligent on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @05:14PM (#4044913)
If my data is document based then how is SQL going to be more concise and expressive than JSON ?

Say I have a domain model that involves a primary object e.g. User with lots of maps and arrays then how is SQL going to be better then ? Lots of tables and joins better than a single document. I think not.

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Re:NoSQL – Back to the Future or Yet Another DB Feature? by paperwork on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @05:35PM (#4045029)
If your data is a User object with maps and arrays, and you design a data structure which gets you the result in exactly that format, you _are_ giving up the ability to ask other questions of this data. You are giving up the ability to ask _many_ different kinds of questions (expressive) in a relatively simple way (concise).
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