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Michael Will:

The proper representation of life is not tabular, but associative. The structure of life is not relational, but hierarchical. Relation is a poor term that falls far short of capturing dynamic connections. […] Shoehorning life science into relational databases is a very lossy process.

— ☞ Cassandra for Life Science (pdf)

I wholeheartedly agree! But from this perspective it looks like graph databases are the closest to model real life.

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This blog is called myNoSQL and it is written by me, Alex Popescu, a software architect with a passion for open source and communities. It records my readings, learnings, and opinions on NoSQL databases, polyglot persistence, and distributed systems -- subjects that I'm passionate about. The opinions expressed here are my own, and no other party necessarily agrees with them. If you feel I'm biased, I probably am.

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