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by Dudelander 807 days ago
A fad that set back the industry by a decade.
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Not sure on that, it made some of the SQL solutions innovate quite a bit.
What did relational databases need from all the document DBs du jour? Broken transactions? Lack of ACID guarantees? Devil-may-care schemas?
yep, the last one -- Postgres' support for json / jsonb is way better now.