Ask HN: 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?
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 12.7 ms ] threadSome 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).