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If you don't like relational databases what would you use instead? (And why?)
by hodgesrm 6y ago
If you don't like relational databases what would you use instead? (And why?)
- lmm 6y agoWithout knowing the details of your use case, Cassandra. (Well, in reality Kafka, but that's a bigger leap). Consistent driver availability, easy horizontal scaling (not for performance to start with but for reliability), basic things like collection-valued columns can just work in a common-sense way, harder to shoot yourself in the foot with the consistency model, separate interfaces for fast key lookups and slow table scans so you don't mix them up.