It's good to have options; it's dangerous to believe all options are equivalent. For 99.9999% of applications, you'll have a much better time starting with a S

It's good to have options; it's dangerous to believe all options are equivalent. For 99.9999% of applications, you'll have a much better time starting with a SQL database. If you've somehow end up with an application in the 0.0001% you can probably safely convert to something else if needed.