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1. As cludgy as SQL is, having to reimplement basic SQL queries ala reinventing wheels isn't very smart imo. It's worse than having an inflexible schema

2. I was only referring to mongo and not to NoSQL as a whole. Cassandra worked just as a advertised.

3. You don't have to use an ORM with a relational database just as you don't have to for mongo. There are other alternatives

4. JSON is no longer an advantage for NoSQL since it's supported by relational databases. It also means that relational databases as a whole can adapt to the market.

5. Which NoSQL you use and for what purpose matters, and it's not just "personal choice". NoSQL in general aren't the generic swiss army knives that relational DBs are. Each NoSQL project has different use cases, which in turn also have different levels of reliability and performance.