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"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" - Isaac Newton. "Let's shove my head into my own ass. NOSQL!" - said by too many young

by kpil 10y ago

"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" - Isaac Newton. "Let's shove my head into my own ass. NOSQL!" - said by too many young and aspiring developers. It's a leap backwards to the seventies and DL/1, but without transactions, that's what it is. Edit: I have never worked with a system that have blobs of "data" and that's been in production for a while, where that turned out to be a good decision. Also, data integrity is hard. Building it on your own, is really hard. Most people have trouble getting it right when the hard bits are already provided for them. SQL isn't perfect, but it's the easy way out 99 times out of 100.

eric_h 10y ago
The problem is really that SQL isn't the easiest way to, starting from nothing, take some data, manipulate it and display it on screen. You have to take a couple of steps to set up a schema, take the data you have, convert it to that schema then manipulate it and display it on screen. Mongo and its ilk give you instant gratification and a tremendously false sense of productivity. It's the easiest way for step 1 without question, it's steps 2 and onwards where it starts to show its problems.