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> I'm pretty sure 90% of us would just look for a Stack Exchange question describing a bunch of popular database platforms and choose whichever looked best afte

> I'm pretty sure 90% of us would just look for a Stack Exchange question describing a bunch of popular database platforms and choose whichever looked best after thinking about it for a few minutes, and that outside of extreme circumstances (>terabytes of data, distributed over an actually unreliable network, other exotica) almost any option would work well enough. And you're the reason why I have to mop up poor performance because someone decided to use MongoDB for highly-relational data.

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maxander 9y ago
Oh, yes[1]. I was arguing why there isn't a knowledge barrier to entry into programming, not why there shouldn't be one. :) [1] Well, not me in particular! I know the important things and only use SE for looking up trivial details, of course. But maybe not everyone agrees with me which is which...