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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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