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>> The only valid reasons to choose non-relational databases are scalability and performance.

Agree 200%. And people seem to get a wrong idea of where this argument starts making sense. With the right indexes, I can easily handle 200req/s on my last SaaS running on a $50/m PostgeSQL.

It's also significantly easier to move from a standardized relational model to a document DB than the opposite.



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