NoSQL Movement?

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Hi DUncan,


Duncan Booth wrote:
> Xah Lee <xahlee at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> For example, consider, if you are within world's top 100th user of
>> database in terms of database size, such as Google, then it may be
>> that the off-the-shelf tools may be limiting. But how many users
>> really have such massive size of data?
> 
> You've totally missed the point. It isn't the size of the data you have 
> today that matters, it's the size of data you could have in several years' 
> time.
> 
> Maybe today you've got 10 users each with 10 megabytes of data, but you're 
> aspiring to become the next twitter/facebook or whatever. It's a bit late 
> as you approach 100 million users (and a petabyte of data) to discover that 
> your system isn't scalable: scalability needs to be built in from day one.


any project/product has to adapt over time.


Not using SQL just because your 20 user application with 100 data sets
might grow into the worlds biggest database doesn't seem right to me.


I strongly believe in not overengineering a product.

For anything I do I use the most covnenient python library first.
This allows me to have results quicky and to get feedback about the
product ASAP.

Lateron I switch to the more performant versions.


bye


N