Comment by mmsimanga

Some months ago I sat in a meeting to discuss design and implementation details for a medicine delivery system. The fact that it was about medicine I thought it would be obvious to everyone that we would have to use a relation database with ACID properties. Last thing we want is to send medicine at best effort, I assumed everyone would be on the same page on the need to use transactions, foreign keys and all other data integrity mechanisms baked into relational databases. I was taken aback when the app developers really could not understand why we needed to use a relational database. A document database was going to be fine. Needless to say it was a long meeting and I wasn't invited back.