"Unless he's planning to build sharding on postgres too, I think he's missing the point." NoSQL seems to have three general claims (I'm not saying whether thes

"Unless he's planning to build sharding on postgres too, I think he's missing the point." NoSQL seems to have three general claims (I'm not saying whether these are correct or not): (1) ease of administration in some cases; (2) different data model; (3) better performance or availability in some situations. The author is clearly addressing the second, and you are clearly talking about the third.