> Some NoSQL databases enforces you to write joins manually in code. Unless you really know what you are doing and spend hours on it, the query will be slow. M

> Some NoSQL databases enforces you to write joins manually in code. Unless you really know what you are doing and spend hours on it, the query will be slow. Most (?) encourage denormalization instead of joins-in-code. > This is exactly what I see with many of our queries. Relational databases is not the answer to everything, but I would prefer to start with one rather than a NoSQL variant. For most application domains, I agree -- but there are plenty of companies that have essentially outgrown the relational approach already. /committer on Cassandra as well as SQLAlchemy