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"No substance" seems a bit harsh. They mostly seem a tarted up associative array, sure, but a key-value store is a thing.
by smitty1e 3y ago
"No substance" seems a bit harsh.
They mostly seem a tarted up associative array, sure, but a key-value store is a thing.
- mnky9800n 3y agoBut don't you prefer your key value stores to be wearing red lipstick and a pushup bra?
- threeseed 3y ago> but a key-value store is a thing DynamoDB underpins much of AWS which in turn underpins a ridiculous number of web services. So definitely more than just a thing.
- rakoo 3y agoA naturally distributed key/value store. NoSQL wasn't a product, it was a radical rethinking of the balance between what we wanted and what we needed. Turns out some absolute necessities of using a RDBMS or even using SQL are not that important, and relaxing those actually-not-requirements allows massive scalability, something we desperately needed, or some evolved data structures and computation, like what redis provides.