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You compared 20 years of SQL use with a few months of NoSQL use. Do you think that NoSQL will become more of a mess than traditional databases over a long peri
by nodata 16y ago
You compared 20 years of SQL use with a few months of NoSQL use.
Do you think that NoSQL will become more of a mess than traditional databases over a long period of time, so much so that it becomes unusable, or do you think the app relying on good data will keep the data clean?
- arethuza 16y agoI'm not sure if NoSQL will be any better, but they can't really be much worse that the reality of most relational designs that I have seen (especially for apps that have evolved over many years).
- gfodor 16y agoThe nice thing about NoSQL is you have no idea of what format the data in the database actually is. So, you'll never actually know how much worse it is. Ignorance is bliss!
- arethuza 16y agoI suspect there will a healthy market for analysis tools for document oriented databases to allow people to find out what they actually have in their documents.
- fauigerzigerk 16y agoI have seen horrible relational schemas as well. But they are islands of sanity in the ocean of custom data formats and encoding rules. Interestingly, the worst relational schemas are often justified using exactly the same arguments we're hearing out of the NoSQL camp today.