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by randliu 5983 days ago
No, it's not ready to replace SQL, and I don't think it ever will. What are your requirements? If it's horizontal scalability (and you're actually hitting a performance wall) you should begin to think about it. Maybe also if you never do any joins.

Relational database systems (+ normalization) compromise everything to ensure the ACID properties, which for the majority of cases, is the most important part.

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How is the relational model inherently better for ACID than non-relational models (graph dbs for instance)?
>database systems