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Are NoSQL databases going to take the place of relational databases? Is SQL going away? [closed]
Does anyone have experience with NoSQL databases (CouchDB, MongoDB, Google's BigTable, Dynamo, Cassandra...)? What was it like? Was it actual production/on the job experience?
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Why use a database instead of just saving your data to disk?
Instead of a database I just serialize my data to JSON, saving and loading it to disk when necessary. All the data management is made on the program itself, which is faster AND easier than using SQL ...
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How would one build a relational database on a key-value store, a-la Berkeley DB's SQL interface?
I've been checking out Berkeley DB and was impressed to find that it supported a SQL interface that is "nearly identical" to SQLite.
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Why is NoSQL better for this scenario?
Hypothetical scenario: Let's say we are downloading JSON from Facebook with details of a user's friend's checkins, posts, etc... These come in as one document per friend per activity, so with 8 ...
