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edejong on April 22, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Call Me Maybe: MongoDB Stale Reads

The general advice should be: use PostgreSQL in case you are uncertain what to use. Watch some Youtube video's with Michael Stonebreaker (2014 Turing Award winner) and start getting disillusioned by the NoSQL hype.

Then, try to understand the mess Edgar Codd tried to fix in the '60s and '70s.

AdrianRossouw on April 22, 2015 [–]

Do you have any specific videos we should watch?

edejong on April 22, 2015 | [–]

In the top-hit on Youtube, Michael starts to discuss the solution-space @31m15s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=OY...)

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