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Zeimyth

Re:Picking SQL or NoSQL on Monday June 20, 2016 @05:51PM (#11941880)
An interesting article. I'm glad to see someone giving an equal treatment of SQL and NoSQL databases for a change. I appreciate the analogy of SQL being an optimized and general-purpose high-level language and NoSQL being a more powerful but specialized low-level or assembly language.

However, I feel like the article fundamentally fails to address the core question of "When should I pick NoSQL over SQL?" If SQL is indeed the choice 99 times out of 100, how can you know when you are faced with that 1-in-100 time when NoSQL is actually the right option?

It makes me happy to see people who find and report bugs rather than hiding and exploiting them. I'm sure the monetary incentive doesn't hurt, either.