I have worked a lot with systems like Teradata, and I am trying to explain to the want-NoSQL-on-my-CV-crowd that large/complex JOINs are _really_ not a problem.

I have worked a lot with systems like Teradata, and I am trying to explain to the want-NoSQL-on-my-CV-crowd that large/complex JOINs are _really_ not a problem. Also trying to explain that relations in RDBMS' have nothing to do with relationships, and that normalization is just a tool that provides certain guarantees on the data you store is simply ignored :)