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NoSQL developers can command higher pay because there are fewer of them. Same with any other shiny new tech, really.

• xupybd 10y ago
  Yeah I've also heard good COBOL developers can command huge pay on legacy banking systems. That would be a good reason to learn COBOL, but I don't think it makes COBOL a good technology choice. There are times where NoSQL is a better choice. When massive scale is involved I understand that NoSQL can come into it's own. I'm sure there are other cases as well. But when it gets used for CRUD, it tends to be a bad call.
  • user5994461 10y ago
    COBOL is good at what it was intended for. Just like NoSQL.
• bsg75 10y ago
  And RDBMS developers can command even higher pay converting platforms.
• wvenable 10y ago
  But there are so many comments in here saying that "SQL is hard" by comparison... should that not command higher pay?
• user5994461 10y ago
  They can command more pay because NoSQL is required by bigger companies who've got more clients and more money to pay DBA. Also, NoSQL is not a database, it's 10 different databases which have little in common with each other. A rare speciality pays more.