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E.g. - "No-SQL" reeks of the "Codasyl" model from the 60s, which relational databases replaced for good reason, whether or not Structured Query Language is the

• coldtea 10y ago
  Exactly, NoSQLs are nothing new -- they are the tried and failed old, that got replaced by RDBMS for good reasons (unless you also have a good reason, e.g. you run at Google's scale). People do "data science" and don't even know the various canonical forms (which are mathematical notions that apply to all kinds of data models, not just SQL DBs).
  • Roboprog 10y ago
    Then there's a "nuance" aspect you could use: maybe we do want a hierarchical model -- in a "middleware" level, for a specific app, just not for the operational data store used by multiple applications. But your "yellow belt" coder might not do this, or, might build out a bunch of layers for something trivial, because that is what was in The Book. Amen! (preaching to the choir, at this point, sorry)