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NoSQL Systems

Why NoSQL

The Diaspora story

In 2010, when the Diaspora team was making this decision, Etsy's articles about using document stores were quite influential ... Likewise, at the time, Facebook's Cassandra was also stirring up a lot of conversation about leaving relational databases. Diaspora chose MongoDB for their social data in this zeitgeist. It was not an unreasonable choice at the time, given the information they had.

  • Yes, it was an unreasonable choice.

  • There was an obvious mismatch between requirements and NoSQL capabilities.

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