Comment Comment by TekMol Adding a column to a table might be a single line change in the application. No matter if you are using SQL or NoSQL.Say your users table looked like this: id name country And now you want to add their city: id name country city This might cause the whole table to be locked and copied in SQL. While it might need no action at all in a NoSQL DB. parent TekMol 5 years ago
Say your users table looked like this:
And now you want to add their city: This might cause the whole table to be locked and copied in SQL. While it might need no action at all in a NoSQL DB.