qazAug 28, 2025

See MongoDB

https://lemmy.world/post/35111083

Show threadℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝Aug 28, 2025

NoSQL has always been a niche use case thing.

For some stuff, no ACID is no problem. They have their place. What I’m more suspicious of is things like Google offering distributed databases that they pretend as if they could break the CAP theorem.

Show threadLucy :3
And yet my Uni treats it like the biggest thing in existence. Meanwhile I’ve never used anything other than RDBS and Redis (only for cache), neither in private nor at work.
Aug 28, 2025 at 8:11amWeb
Show threadℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝Aug 28, 2025

MongoDB is huge though for all the wrong reasons, businesses think that just because it’s JS, they can just have frontend devs - sorry, they are “fullstack” now - doing DBA work.

I worked as one of two NoSQL DBAs for a Fortune 50 finance company, and there is a ton of CV-driven development going on giving NoSQL a bad name. Most use cases don’t need NoSQL. And for those which do, NoSQL is almost always harder to implement than simple SQL based RDBMSs.

Show threadCallMeAnAIAug 28, 2025
Jumping in this, bingo. JavaScript only shops scare the fuck out of me.
Show threadGenderNeutralBroAug 28, 2025
Just wail til they become AI-generated-JavaScript-only shops. They’re gonna be vibing like the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
Show threadnoobfaceAug 28, 2025
why is my deploy process so slow? ©_©=> 500k npm packages
Show threadAurenkinAug 28, 2025
Sharded RDBS gets you very very far from my experience at least.
Show threadℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝Aug 28, 2025
Definitely, and I’m saying that while my jobs were mostly on NoSQL and I love doing it.
Show threadoce 🐆Aug 28, 2025
If you need to run queries that aggregate big amounts of data in a reasonable time and cost, you’ll need something built for it. For example, with column oriented file formats instead of row oriented file formats in traditional relational databases
Show threadℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝Aug 28, 2025
My point is more that 90% of use cases don’t need that, and for those that do, you can’t just slap eg. Cassandra at it and pretend it’s a relational database.
Show threadPennomiAug 28, 2025
And the key word “big” here is far bigger than most engineers need to deal with. Hell, most supposed “big data” problems I’ve seen people try to tackle are small enough to fit the whole database into memory.
Show threadStizzahAug 28, 2025
It always depends on the context… My current job is 100% on Elasticsearch and I’m not missing transactions at all.