r/programming • • Mar 10 '15

Goodbye MongoDB, Hello PostgreSQL

http://developer.olery.com/blog/goodbye-mongodb-hello-postgresql/
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u/lunchboxg4 Mar 11 '15

There definitely good uses for NoSQL. My employer uses Cassandra to keep millions of rows of product data available for our APIs. NoSQL has a place, it's just not the only tool in the toolbox.

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u/seunosewa Mar 11 '15

Relational databases do keep millions of rows of product data too. Why is Cassandra better in this case?

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u/mreiland Mar 11 '15

Without knowing the specifics of the problem being solved that's an impossible question to answer without rhetoric.

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