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This doesn't make much sense to me. I think the answer is just lack of experience. "noSQL" should be read as "not-only sql" and I think sql in this acronym should be interpreted as "relational databases". I think the relational model is convenient for a lot of purposes but at some point (maybe ~10 years ago) some companies where trying to use it for everything even when those things didn't actually fit in that model. So, "noSQL" for me actually means "alternatives" for different kinds of data time-series, graph, key-value, documents, etc. with redis, neo4j, graphite, mongodb, etc. What I would like to see in the future is some ecosystem based on small pluggable modules that you can use to build the embedded store for a micro-services. Instead of using a full-feature database system (relational or not) you assemble your store like Legos wi

And... one more: * It's really fun to share project ownership with all the contributors. From CONTRIBUTING.md: > Individuals making significant and valuable contributions are given commit-access to the project to contribute as they see fit. This project is more like an open wiki than a standard guarded open source project. (https://github.com/feross/webtorrent-desktop/blob/master/CON...) The first time I witnessed this in action was on the LevelUp project (https://github.com/Level/levelup). Since the days of the iojs fork, Node.js itself has adopted the same model. Sharing commit access liberally is awesome for project health, because: - The project can move forward even when the project owner is busy. - It empowers contributors. It makes them feel like owners, because, well, they are. They end up contributing a lot more code. - In the wo

I'd also encourage people to check out gun - http://gun.js.org/ (disclaimer: I'm on the gun team) GUN is a highly modular, open-source, real-time, offline-first, distributed cache storage engine. By default gun uses localStorage for data storage, but with gun-level there are many more data storage engines just a module away. GUN defaults to pushing all data. The gun team is regularly releasing new modules, new and improved functionality, and improving performance. If you have any questions, please feel free to ping the gun team on Gitter. [gun-level]: https://github.com/PsychoLlama/gun-level [available data storage engines]: https://github.com/Level/levelup/wiki/Modules#storage [gun's gitter channel]: https://gitter.im/amark/gun

There is some FUD in this blogpost as well as in the comments in this thread. I think the current status quo for databases is canned software. And this isn't necessarily bad because neither of the three databases mentioned hide their specs or default settings, the three have very good docs and community willing to help, in addition to companies giving commercial support. Whats your excuse to misuse these products? RethinkDB writes your data to disk before acknowledging the write but on the other hand can't elect a new primary in case of failure, two completely different features/limitations that might work for someone and not for other ones. Is that hard to understand? Did mongo documentation lie you at some point? Accept that you are "buying" a general purpose product, the designers thought that their users will need those features, deal

I really like the idea of using Google Spreadsheets as a quick and familiar GUI for entry or querying on data sets, as long as you understand the tradeoffs (write latency isn't great and they max out at 400,000 cells). But this is especially nice when you build a layer on top of Google reduces lock-in, instead of adding another proprietary API. This is what I did with sheet-down[1], which turns a Google Spreadsheet into a LevelDB-compatible data store that can be swapped out with a file system or other compatible backend[2] once you outgrow Google. [1] https://github.com/jed/sheet-down [2] https://github.com/rvagg/node-levelup/wiki/Modules#storage

Here is a nice collection of node.js / browser stuff that wraps around IndexedDB / LevelDB / WebSQL and is mostly compatible with one another. https://github.com/rvagg/node-levelup/wiki/Modules