"future devs will have to learn your crazy system rather than leveraging all the existing SQL knowledge they currently have." Super important point that someti

"future devs will have to learn your crazy system rather than leveraging all the existing SQL knowledge they currently have." Super important point that sometimes trumps everything else when considering any new technology that people often forget. Some of the first servers that I purchased were SGI running Irix. Turns out that the person who advised that didn't consider the fact that while the Sun's weren't "as good" he also didn't consider that there were so many more packages available on Sun's as well as sysadmin's as well as information (at that time) on the net. What I've found over time is that unless there is a compelling reason to do otherwise you go with the ubiquitous solution to a problem. Back in the day: Or the solution that there was an O'Reilly book on or a row of books on the bookshelf explaining (when that is essentially the knowledge base).