NoSQL: If Only It Was That Easy

The biggest thing in web apps since “rails can’t scale” is this idea that “your rdbms doesn’t scale.” This has gone so far as to be dubbed the coming of age for “nosql” with lots of blog posts and even a meetup. Indeed, there are many promising key-value stores, distributed key-value stores, document oriented dbs, and column oriented db projects on the radar. This is *definitely* a great thing for the web application scene and this level of variety will definitely open doors for organizations large and small in the near and long term.

However, along with these great tools, an attitude that “the rdbms is dead” has popped up, and while that may be true in the long run, in the short term, it’s definitely premature.