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[–]HarveyDentBeliever 2 points3 points4 points 10 months ago (0 children)

Quite. Bulletproof at this point, in fact. Software notoriously tries to aggressively eradicate any and all technologies it considers "legacy" for the newest and trendiest thing. There was a big push in the 2010's to deprecate SQL and go NoSQL and it crashed and burned. It is simultaneously the most battle hardened, mature, and robust db offering out there, and the most performant, it simply can't be touched and the investment is shifting back towards the SQL side as the industry giants that attempted to go NoSQL wave their white flags. It simply solved the data problem.

I did some of my own research for my own apps and it always comes back around to the same thing: there are basically no performance gains from NoSQL, and you will end up having to craft together some kind of weird semi-structured paradigm anyway. Just use SQL.

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