SQL vs. NoSQL

Theres a lot of debate on this and I understand theres no clear answers. Just wanted to hear some of your experiences working with both and whats applicable for what type of systems. I myself am working on a database for a web app analytics tool and witnessed some benefits of NoSQL while SQL is supposedly more reliable.

Understand companies like Amazon have shifted to NoSQL to manage their data. In short, I do think that SQL is for high processing, low disk space while NoSQL is vice versa in layman terms. Im pretty new to programming and appreciate a healthy discussion on this.

Please do not draw lines and have hate posts and all. Keep the discussion clean and intelligent.

Thanks!!

55 points thinkerer 12 years ago 77 comments

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