[gaius]

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.

[benblack]

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.