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Discussion on: Document vs Relational Databases

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Egor Pavlikhin

For anyone wanting to combine the two approaches I strongly recommend Postgres. It has excellent support for JSON columns, which overcomes some of the listed limitations of NoSQL databases, but also allows you to store "unstructured" data.

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Blake Cooley

I'll have to look into it for sure, I'm by no means an expert in this- 4 weeks ago I didn't even know what a SQL database was! I believe mySQL lets you store JSON now as well but I'm not sure how efficient it is at it.

And yeah, unstructured might not be the best word, maybe unorganized? That also seems a tad off though since JSONs are pretty structured/organized as well.