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But if it is for running ad hoc data mining on relatively small amounts of data, wouldn't a traditional SQL database do the job just as well? Especially with wi
by jeltz 13y ago
But if it is for running ad hoc data mining on relatively small amounts of data, wouldn't a traditional SQL database do the job just as well? Especially with with features like the JSON support in PostgreSQL.
- gaius 13y agoYes, you are perfectly correct. But a lot of people are paid a lot of money for reinventing the wheel every few years, so expect your words to fall on deaf ears.
- jimbokun 13y agoI think the question is how much effort will it take to get all kinds of data from all kinds of sources into a nice, coherent schema. The "schema-less" aspects of NoSQL data stores is a big part of the marketing appeal, I think. (Maybe the JSON support in PostgreSQL makes this moot, but that's the thinking.)
- gaius 13y agoYou always have a schema. The only question is if you know what it is, or not. In the next few years there will be a lot of money to be made getting data out of these stores and back into relational databases.
- threeseed 13y agoPostgreSQL has terrible sharding and clustering support. So no I would not be using it for any big data projects.