nosql databases do not free you from having to design your schema! they do free you from having to run migrations, but those are trivial while you are small, mi

nosql databases do not free you from having to design your schema! they do free you from having to run migrations, but those are trivial while you are small, migrations are only a problem when you have huge tables. With nosql dbs you can skip migrations and do 'repair on read' schema changes, but you still need to design your schema. and coming from sql world, designing nosql schemas can be a lot of pain since you have to change your perspective completely. and crazy naming (of cassandra and other big-table derivatives) doesn't help either: wtf is column family, etc :).