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by benblack 5702 days ago
That was but one example out of many. Oracle is a great database. It isn't great at everything, however. Geographically distributed, fault tolerant, scale out architectures as often required for big online services? Not a great fit. Multi-petabyte complex analytics processing? Not a great fit.

There is a set of relational database folks fixated on the false dichotomy of relational databases OR non-relational databases. In practice, they are often combined in a variety of ways. Insisting on One True Database is like insisting on One True Operating System or One True Programming Language. Stop obsessing over tools and build useful stuff!
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gaius 5702 days ago
Oh indeed, right tool for the job, I'm 100% with you there.

The issue is, from the NoSQL camp we hear about "schema rigidity". We hear "SQL doesn't scale". These things simply aren't true! It's as if someone had only ever written .BAT files on DOS and thought that all its limitations applied to Python as well (and went and told experienced professional Python devs that!).

There have been "object repositories" such as Versant for a long time. The NoSQL types seem oblivious to these too.

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benblack 5702 days ago
Schema rigidity is a canard originating with the same folks who think a hash is a type system. I encourage you to dismiss the folks who say things like that, rather than dismissing some very useful technologies.
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