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Re:Why I Migrated Away From MongoDB by reinhardt on Monday September 17, 2012 @07:23PM (#4535420)
The last line sounds pretty familiar after replacing "NoSQL" with "PHP" and "RDBMS" with "decent languages".
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Re:Why I Migrated Away From MongoDB by taligent on Monday September 17, 2012 @10:41PM (#4536016)
I completely agree. This whole NoSQL/RDBMS situation is programming language debate being played out over again.

And just like not every programming language works for every situation. Neither does every database.

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Re:Why I Migrated Away From MongoDB by einhverfr on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @02:15AM (#4536638)
I agree. BTW, the most lucid description of when to use relational vs non-relational models is not all that new. You can read it here:

http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/Informix/www.informix.com/i...

In this model, there is virtually no difference between the complex data/no query db's of the paper then and NoSQL today in terms of use case. Interesting that a one-time executive of Informix was able to present such a long-lasting discussion of db technologies.....

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