It seems like there is a huge amount of ignorance (on the parts of both developers and DBAs) about the fact that NoSQL doesn't necessarily mean "no schema." Fo

It seems like there is a huge amount of ignorance (on the parts of both developers and DBAs) about the fact that NoSQL doesn't necessarily mean "no schema." For whatever reason, the "cool kids" in the Web dev world completely ignore the ugly stepchildren of the NoSQL world, graph databases. Graph databases provide the protections of a schema, but the schema can be altered without massive pain on the parts of developers. Even better, the RDF style graph databases have a W3C standard query language called SPARQL. Don't get me wrong, I love my RDBMS (MySQL and PostgreSQL) and I also use Mongo and love its extreme simplicity, but I wish more developers understood that schemas exist in places other than RDBMS.