The book Designing Data-Intensive Applications talks about “schema on write” vs “schema on read”. In order to interpret your data, you must apply a schema, so y

The book Designing Data-Intensive Applications talks about “schema on write” vs “schema on read”. In order to interpret your data, you must apply a schema, so your choice is whether you do that explicitly when the data is written, or implicitly when it’s read. Or as Yoda would say, Schema read or schema write, there is no “no schema”.