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wpietri on May 15, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Migrating From MongoDB To Riak At Bump

The chant that "X is best, period" is a religious notion, not a practical one. You're welcome to worship whatever you please, but for those of us who are here to have a real-world impact, "best" is defined in terms of utility for a particular situation.

Even one of the great RDBMS pioneers, Stonebraker, agrees that RDBMSes are an artifact of a particular era in technology and commerce and should be thrown out and done over:

http://nms.csail.mit.edu/~stavros/pubs/hstore.pdf

batista on May 16, 2012 [–]

>The chant that "X is best, period" is a religious notion, not a practical one.

When it comes to Math, there is no argument. Period.

wpietri on May 17, 2012 | [–]

In the name of the Tangent, and the Sum, and the Multiplier, go thee and spread thy gospel. Amen.

batista on May 17, 2012 | | [–]

Exactamundo, my friend, but non-ironically of course!

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