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Except RDBMSs are ubiquitous. Whether or not they're overkill, they're cheap, easy, and well understood. What web host in the world doesn't run MySQL? What pla
by ianterrell 15y ago
Except RDBMSs are ubiquitous. Whether or not they're overkill, they're cheap, easy, and well understood.
What web host in the world doesn't run MySQL? What platforms don't support Sqlite3? What PaaS doesn't give you easy access to Postgres or another database.
Compare that to support and sysadmin knowledge of Mongo, Redis, Couch, whatever: there's no comparison.
It's only "overkill" in the very limited sense of, what, CPU cycles? Unused relational algebra potential?
- Joeri 15y agoI think the argument is that SQL+ORM is not that different from NoSQL. You have a point that it's probably easier to use an ORM than a NoSQL store in the real world.