NoSQL will rot your brain! (Or something like that)
D'you remember this ridiculous article in The Database Journal on " The Hidden Cost of Scaling in NoSQL " ? I won't go into it again - if I remember correctly, I summed up my take on the whole article as Mind you, they did miss the following very important points too Baby Seals : NoSQL developers club baby seals with joy and abandon, and make gloves with their flippers Puppies : Using NoSQL makes you want to kick puppies ( and kittens!) Nazis : Hitler used a NoSQL database Seriously, if this isn't sufficient reason for The Database Journal to be shut down, well, I can't think of a better one... Now Sreedhar Kajeepeta in InformationWeek has tried to one-up them with the provocatively titled NoSQL Everywhere? Not So Fast. The difference, this time, is that instead of a series of ad hominem attacks, this article takes the Cool-Whip approach ( An argument that is so content-free you end up nauseated, and acquiesce by default ). For ...