[edejong]

The 'no schema needed' paradigm that persisted within DE is finally replaced with the hard lessons learned in the 70's.

Systems die, data stays.

[threeseed]

It was never about no-schema it was about schema-on-read.

And it came about because companies were wasting millions doing pointless up front schema design for data that were never queried. As well as the ongoing challenge of trying to keep schemas up to date for systems they don't control e.g. SaaS.