I think that this exact post, a few months ago, could get very different comments, possibly along the lines "wow, so what the hype about NoSQL is at all?". Ins

I think that this exact post, a few months ago, could get very different comments, possibly along the lines "wow, so what the hype about NoSQL is at all?". Instead here I see tons of comments that are to the point, that show how we are evolving as the hackers community about the ability to understand tradeoffs with database systems. This is a huge win. Also I bet the reverse is true, that the "magical features" about NoSQL systems to be fast, scalable, handling huge data sets, fault tolerant while distributed, everything at the same time, is hardly believed at this point.