Why startups should not choose NoSQL
So to summarize – don’t sacrifice flexibility and ease of work for some fictional “trillions of petabytes”. If it happens that you need to handle huge amounts of data, it will be in a way that you will be able to restructure your data model. And at a point when you will know what questions you want to ask.
Questions for the author — admittedly I might have missed a couple:
- is it easier to maintain a series of migrations or use a schema-less storage until you nail your model?
- is it more efficient to pre-compute some results or to put them together over and over and over again?
- is it worth caching some of the results or are you better off computing them every time?
I cannot make up my mind.
Original title and link: Why startups should not choose NoSQL (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)
