Re:Startups should use a relational database
by VLM on Sunday December 22, 2013 @09:23AM
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Via analogy:
RDBMS = swiss army chainsaw, can do anything although maybe painfully and slowly.
NoSQL = 5/16th inch torque pre-set wrench for tightening sma connectors to 10 inch-lbs torque. Can't do much else, but its near perfect at its tiny little area of expertise.
On a meta level its a battle between hardware and applications, where app demands have (momentarily, of course) fallen behind commodity hardware ability.
RDBMS = swiss army chainsaw, can do anything although maybe painfully and slowly.
NoSQL = 5/16th inch torque pre-set wrench for tightening sma connectors to 10 inch-lbs torque. Can't do much else, but its near perfect at its tiny little area of expertise.
On a meta level its a battle between hardware and applications, where app demands have (momentarily, of course) fallen behind commodity hardware ability.