Re:Most data isn’t “big,” and businesses are wasting money p...
by dasil003 on Monday May 13, 2013 @10:02AM
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> It's sounds really nice to have a data store that adapts when it's impossible to know up-front what you need from your data structures.
This seems backwards to me. Relational databases are much better at ad-hoc querying of data, whereas NoSQL scales for narrower access patterns. The fact that you can dump arbitrary columns without a migration is a nice convenience, but in general it will be less queryable than it would be if you added the column in a SQL database.
This seems backwards to me. Relational databases are much better at ad-hoc querying of data, whereas NoSQL scales for narrower access patterns. The fact that you can dump arbitrary columns without a migration is a nice convenience, but in general it will be less queryable than it would be if you added the column in a SQL database.