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Re:Postgres 9.3 feature highlight: JSON operators by coldtea on Sunday April 14, 2013 @06:26PM (#5548633)
Actually people USE JSON blob fields to increase scalability (as far as back as FriendFeed).

Sure, doing this hampers normalization and single server speed, but if the queries are parallelizable with shards et al, what would hamper scalability?

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