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It doesn't seem like a relational database, and eventual consistency is going to make relational constraints problematic.
by eloff 6y ago
It doesn't seem like a relational database, and eventual consistency is going to make relational constraints problematic.
- ben509 6y agoNo doubt, but people need constraints. So they'll cobble together ad hoc constraints in their applications to prevent their stuff from crashing or being wrong. A DBMS's raison d'etre is to take those ad hoc code patterns and formalize them.
- eloff 6y agoYes, but but you're talking about a different kind of database. This kind of big-data store is for specialty use cases with different kinds of constraints. Foreign-keys are pretty low on the list of important things here, and when they exist likely point to an external relational database anyway.