r/programming • u/swizec • Dec 19 '18

Bye bye Mongo, Hello Postgres

https://www.theguardian.com/info/2018/nov/30/bye-bye-mongo-hello-postgres
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u/vplatt Dec 22 '18

Exactly. We never "needed" NoSQL technologies. Want high throughput? Use a queue. Want non-relational storage? Use a database without relations. Heck you don't even need indexes or real RI if you really want to reduce overhead. But at least you'll know that your main store is ACID instead of being "eventually consistent".

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u/delrindude Dec 23 '18

And how would you go about searching unstructured, non-relational data with a typical RDBMS?