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james_marksyesterday at 4:44 PM2 repliesview on HN

If the argument for NoSQL is, “we don’t know what our schema is going to be”, stop.

Stop and go ask more questions until you have a better understanding of the problem.


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jampekkayesterday at 6:23 PM

Oftentimes better understanding of the problem needs trying out solutions. Armchair architectures tend to blow up in contact with reality.

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ranger_dangeryesterday at 9:01 PM

Even a JSON column would be better in most cases IMO, and on Postgres you can also make indexes on json keys.