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The thing about the NoSQL trend is that it's still very valid in some areas. Even big and slow companies have some project or supplier that uses a software with a NoSQL service in it.

You just rarely see those bundled redis or elasticsearch servers that are crucial for some app to do its session management and search engine.

The most disturbing part of the NoSQL trend is that people are treating it like a battle between two competing systems.

I have at least one major system under my own belt that uses relational SQL for backend data, ES for search engine and cassandra for TSDB.

I need and trust all those services to work as one unit.




> The thing about the NoSQL trend is that it's still very valid in some areas. Even big and slow companies have some project or supplier that uses a software with a NoSQL service in it.

This is a good point and I didn't do a good job of acknowledging it in my prior comment. There are use cases for NoSQL, but to me it's a tool for a narrower set of circumstances. My default is relational, unless I have a clear idea of why that isn't the right fit.




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