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I agree with you partially. I also think that it became popular because a lot of data for many cases is naturally semi-structured documents / complex graphs.
by claytongulick 6y ago
I agree with you partially.
I also think that it became popular because a lot of data for many cases is naturally semi-structured documents / complex graphs.
Strictly modeling this in many cases is either impossible or prohibitively complex.
Like most tech fads, NoSQL is best used as just another tool in the toolbox.
It is entirely appropriate for a huge class of problems, and entirely inappropriate for others.
- f6v 6y agoI can almost guarantee that for most of the SaaS startups which still go with the React, Node, Mongo stack the data is structured. They have users, orders and whatnot. It just takes some experience to foresee the upcoming product changes. But as someone said here, the nosql stack has been incredibly popular among recent bootcamp graduates.
- claytongulick 6y agoWe're going to have to disagree there. Loosely structured graph data is a thing, and there are many uses cases for it. This is why pretty much every rdbms these days has a json datatype.