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johannes1234321 on Aug 25, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Critique of SQL, 40 Years Later

What is the thin noSQL brings to the table which a relational system doesn't have? (Except that writing a depth search in a JSON document in SQL is a bit more cumbersome, but if that is a concern that can be wrapped in a data access library to generate the SQL)

warrenm on Aug 25, 2022 [–]

I think I've explained that above - it's not having to be rigidly tied to a schema :)

johannes1234321 on Aug 26, 2022 | [–]

Not that my "schema" is really rigid ... just a little more convoluted syntax than "createCollection" but underneath quite similar.

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