[irq]: techie interrupted31/10/2012
“ Although the NoSQL movement “rode in under this banner of scalability,” he explained, choosing a NoSQL option based on how it scales can actually be a false choice. MongoLab operates under a thesis that MongoDB is pulling away as the world’s most-popular NoSQL database not because it scales the best — it does scale, Shulman said, but he’d actually choose Cassandra if he just needed a multi-petabyte data store without much concern over queries or data structure — but because web developers are moving away from the relational format to an object-oriented format. „
MongoLab explains why everyone loves MongoDB (and raises $5M) — Data | GigaOM
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