> At that point why not abandon databases entirely and use a key-value store? Because there is a schema, it's just a dynamically evolving one, and also, presum

> At that point why not abandon databases entirely and use a key-value store? Because there is a schema, it's just a dynamically evolving one, and also, presumably the rest of your system depends on the relational DB, so why multiply your dependencies unnecessarily? > You're not even talking about traditional relational databases anymore. There's nothing non-relational about the schema I've outlined, it matches what the domain requires with less noise than 400 nullable columns.