[qwer]

This is just another article telling me about what I should do with my web application without asking me anything whatsoever about my web application. Just because you made a bad choice for your situation doesn't necessarily mean everyone else did too.

[bigiain]

It's not impossible that your app is one of the special snowflake web apps that are not fundamentally just another CRUD app underneath (at least on the backend) - but even if yours is not, you've got to admit 99.9% or more of all web applications are _not_ special snowflakes and generalised advice for CRUD apps is often precisely on-point for most web developers.

[jw1224]

This is just another comment assuming that the article is talking directly to me. Just because it makes some generalisations that are useful to many, doesn't necessarily mean it is tailored to my exact situation.

[qwer]

Come on... The article is clearly written for a general web dev audience (if not, please let me know the more specific audience you've inferred) and starts with this completely unqualified first sentence:

> Let’s get straight to the point; choose an SQL database for your web application. I think I can’t make my self clearer.

Yeah there is better qualification later, but there are whole paragraphs of railing against nosql databases for all kinds purposes that they actually CAN make sense in, for certain applications.

[6nf]

We don't need to know anything about your web application to know that you need a RDBMS.

If you happen to have an exception to this rule, you are a VERY VERY rare case indeed.