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Vincent Milum Jr

Just a small point of clarification. This article makes it seems like SQL / Relational databases are nearly worthless, when in reality its exactly the opposite. They're the most versatile.

In MariaDB, you can do key-value store, JSON document store, graph data store, columnar store, and relational store, all in one piece of software, all queryable via the same SQL language, and all supporting each other at the same time. You can mix/match your data as much as you like.

Databases like MariaDB are also among the most well test, most stable, and platform agnostic tools you could use to store your data at any scale, from Raspberry Pis to the largest web sites in the world!

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Vladislav Kopylov

This article makes it seems like SQL / Relational databases are nearly worthless, when in reality its exactly the opposite. They're the most versatile.

I didn't say that SQL databases are worthless. I really like SQL, use it almost every day and enjoy it. In the article I tell that noSQL db is good tool only for limited cases. They aren't universal as SQL and each noSQL db is suitable for some cases.