>> Many large apps are significantly de-normalized and have many foreign-key less tables, often filled up by scheduled jobs. That's fine for most apps; NoSQL ar

>> Many large apps are significantly de-normalized and have many foreign-key less tables, often filled up by scheduled jobs. That's fine for most apps; NoSQL architectures recognize that and users consider that in design. There's a boat load of assumed knowledge in this quote, how likely is it that someone not familiar with rdbms would know what a foreign key is, for example? Not very likely I think. I posit you give developers too much credit.