HACKER Q&A
📣 khaled_ismaeel

Do you still engineer your SQL databases?


I have the the sense that the somewhat mathematical treatment of databases in relational form is decreasing in favor of the less structured NoSQL databases. I am not an expert in databases, but this feels like a hype that will be reversed some time in the near future.

What experience do you have in the topic?

  👤 gardenfelder Accepted Answer ✓
It depends...

Some problems are easily solved with flat files.

Others require some level of organization, so you migrate to a database. Some problems are easily solved with noSQL, others require sophisticated query patterns not easily solved with noSQL (exceptions being through the use of,e.g. Hadoop and all manner of code gymnastics).