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Re:A Comprehensive Guide to Moving from SQL to RethinkDB by moe on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @12:35PM (#9335218)
With the rise of realtime applications

What does "realtime" have to do with the datastore?

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Re:A Comprehensive Guide to Moving from SQL to RethinkDB by ppj606 on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @01:14PM (#9335517)
The usage and access of data in your data store when building a realtime application. If you were building a chat-app these days you are given a number of very easy to adopt (minimal complexity/edge cases) NoSQL solutions - Firebase, Parse, RethinkDB.

Whereas with SQL you have the option of using cache layers (which you could say is NoSQL anyway), message queues, naive timely polling and log monitoring.

With NoSQL the solutions are just simpler. For example Firebase has a tutorial for creating a real-time chat [1] - it takes 5 minutes.

[1] https://www.firebase.com/tutorial/#example/chat

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