Most of the time, I get the reverse problem: It's pretty odd to map data to objects. For a lot of applications, a relational view is pretty natural. That's why

Most of the time, I get the reverse problem: It's pretty odd to map data to objects. For a lot of applications, a relational view is pretty natural. That's why I never got the "NoSQL instead of RDBMS" rhetoric. A document-oriented database is just another tool in your kit. Choose the right one, depending on the usual format of the data. If one is always reaching for one tool, it's much more likely that there's not enough expertise with other tools than that this one tool is so great and universally applicable. Silver bullets…