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Blech, the worst thing I've noticed after moving to document databases even when scale does matter is the loss of the relational data model. A nice ERD that sh
by daxfohl 7y ago
Blech, the worst thing I've noticed after moving to document databases even when scale does matter is the loss of the relational data model. A nice ERD that shows relationships between your entities makes everything so simple. You could have one for document database as well but people stare at you strangely. So now it's just a random collection of collections of stuff, and it takes 10x more words to describe your design.
- geophile 7y agoThis is a really good read: http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2013/11/11/why-you-should-never-use-mongodb/ http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2013/11/11/why-you-should-never... It shows what happens when you have exactly the misunderstandings being discussed here. Also note that the author still has absolutely no idea how to do a simple ER diagaram.
- andybak 7y agoMy favourite line: > Once we figured out that we had accidentally chosen a cache for our database, what did we do about it? I'm going to use that one to win imaginary arguments in my head with my pet NoSQL strawman.