There has been a fair bit of work since this time on automated data modeling for NoSQL databases given a conceptual model and information on the workload. Some

There has been a fair bit of work since this time on automated data modeling for NoSQL databases given a conceptual model and information on the workload. Some of this work is my own[0], but there has been a lot of other related activity. One thing that I've been happy to see explored more is cost modeling[1] in NoSQL databases as this makes any sort of automated reasoning much easier. I doubt we'll ever get to the point where data modeling by an expert is never needed, but I think there's a lot we can do to make things easier and more performant for novices. [0] http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7967690/ http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7967690/ [1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350366905_A_cost_model_for_random_access_queries_in_document_stores https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350366905_A_cost_mo...