[groundzeros2015]

nobody mentioning the "file system as a noSQL database comment". I found most of the friction when using bash/unix style tools when I tried to put everything in structured files that needed parsing. Once you see folder/files as the structure these tools work great.

It's also interesting to me that many noSQL starts from the assumption that relations are too complex, and that trees are preferred.

[zadikian]

NoSQL was more of a convenience thing during that trend. You might have some bag of nested attributes that maps perfectly fine onto relations, but it's cumbersome for someone who just wants to load it all into an object, edit, then resave. People used to use ORMs to get around that, then NoSQL became popular, and now you can just use jsonb in SQL while still maintaining relations for other things.

This doesn't say much about the horizontal scaling that NoSQL systems were really designed for, but most people getting on that train didn't need that kind of scale.

[groundzeros2015]

Yes, and I’m suggesting to try the file system if you think a tree is convenient.