Comment by redwood
16 days ago
What's your take on Aurora DSQL?
My take is anything single cloud provider proprietary and tabular in 2025 is going to over time feel too limited. Having a json column doesn't cut it. But I'm a believer in document databases
Relational databases (sans JSON columns) are limited in the same way that seatbelts limit your ability to be transfenestrated during a crash.
Having a rigid and well-designed schema is a mechanism to keep you or your team from doing stupid things.
nosql does not imply no schema
I think most would infer that, but in any case, it most definitely implies a non-rigid schema.
Cassandra et al. IMO only fall under the NoSQL banner by retconning the meaning to be “Not Only SQL.” Columnar DBs are a fine idea for certain uses.
Document DBs and/or chucking everything into a JSON column, though… those can die in a fire.
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Honestly haven't really had to deal with use case where json column does not cut it, but I would imaging there might be some.