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Discussion on: Use relational database as document database: get the best of both worlds

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Vincent Milum Jr

Modern "relational" databases natively support JSON data as well, and this can be used along side existing schema based data.

mariadb.com/kb/en/json-data-type/
mariadb.com/kb/en/json-functions/

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Nicolas Penot

Indeed Vincent. But the idea here is that you don't have to define a data model at all. The database will cast your JSON in tables transparently. Thus you can have the benefit of a document database with the benefit of a relational database.
Have you ever use Mongodb in a project?