'NoSQL (Cassandra/Mongo) vs RDBMS
Hi I'm learning the feature of NoSQL database from system design perspective and also read that a lot of big companies use a sharded RDBMS instead of those nosql databases to save their data.
Does this make that the only advantage of NoSQL data (Cassandra/MongoDB) is because it's an off-the shelf distributed solution and cheap to maintain?
Solution 1:[1]
Relational databases and nosql databases are different beasts. Relational databases serve well for most of the use cases but they fell short in catering to web scale data where millions of records are coming in a fraction of time. For solving these issues(web scale data) nosql solutions were devised. So don't think organizations prefer nosql only for cheap maintenance, it is the use case which defines which kind of database technology to use.
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