https://medium.com/@s_lott Plus, of course, lots of other stuff from lots of other folks. Enjoy.

Read this: NoSQL Database Doesn’t Mean No Schema It was fun to write. And the code works really nicely.

This cropped up recently. It's part of a "replace Mongo with Relational DB" conversation.

I'm going to elide the conversation down to five key points. The three post-hoc nonsensical ideas, and the two real points.

What's (to me) very telling is that someone else published the five reasons in this …

It may be helpful to look back at 'How Managers Say "No"' which is about breaking the RDBMS Hegemony.

I got an email in which the simple concepts of "data manipulation" and "persistence" had become entangled with SQL DML to a degree that the conversation failed to make sense to …

Got an email looking for help in attempting break through the RDBMS Hegemony. It's a little confusing, but this is the important part of how management says "no".

"Their response was nice but can you flush [sic] it out more"

[First: the word is "flesh": "flesh it out." Repeat after …

As part of coming to grips with CouchDB (and a particularly odious graph-theory problem) I've been looking around for design guidelines, hints and tips.

This MongoDB Schema Design document is quite helpful. The Link vs. Embed section clarifies the essential tradeoff here. In SQL world, link is the only tool …

I've started to work with couchdb.

I've blogged before about the problems of SQL schema in Escaping the Relational Schema Trap.

A SQL schema -- for many applications -- is too confining. It creates cost with relatively little value. Once upon a time (when disks where expensive and computers were slow) it …