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0 pointsbazoom422y ago0 comments

I belive in using the right tool for the job, and this might somtimes be document databases, key-value stores, xml or json values or whatever is needed to solve the problem.

But let me point out that hierachical databases (which document databases, xml etc are variants of) predate the relational model (and certainly predate Dates work) so it it worth to be aware of the challenges and limitations which caused the development of the relational model as an alternative.

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ttfkam2y ago

> I belive in using the right tool for the job

And more of these tools (RDBMSs) are able to perform more jobs. There's definitely use cases for correlating parts of documents with traditional relational data. Quite often there's no need to choose between a relational database engine and a document database engine when the engines support both and more.

Hybrids tend to blur the lines for definitions.

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0 pointsbazoom422y ago0 comments

I belive in using the right tool for the job, and this might somtimes be document databases, key-value stores, xml or json values or whatever is needed to solve the problem.

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ttfkam2y ago

> I belive in using the right tool for the job

Hybrids tend to blur the lines for definitions.

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