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SideburnsOfDoom on Sept 3, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Reddit's database has only two tables

> many of the feature-important things are being stored as JSON blobs. ... when I add a new feature I just define its JSON schema.

Some no-sql stores work like that. You may be better off using one of them.

SoftwareMaven on Sept 3, 2012 [–]

I looked at that (and have done that in the past), but I really missed some of the ORM features I got with relational. I would up writing more glue code than I liked for things that would otherwise be free. This is my compromise world (and Postgres is getting better at handling its JSON).

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