> "Most applications today run on a database technology that was introduced in the 1970s. We built ours on ideas that were tried and discarded in favor of that

> "Most applications today run on a database technology that was introduced in the 1970s. We built ours on ideas that were tried and discarded in favor of that technology." Not entirely true, but nuance often precludes persuasion. Many of the ideas behind NoSQL databases can be very valuable, given the right context, but there are a lot of good reasons relational databases have been the de-facto default over the last four decades.