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by mjouni 4926 days ago
More than often, reading the schema is the lowest hanging fruit when you are trying to understand the domain knowledge of a startup. This becomes even more true when the codebase is not that readable. Now this is not an enough of a reason to shy away from NOSQL data stores, but should make you pause and consider what you will be losing when you invest in a schemaless DB.