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pnathan on Feb 1, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: You Only Wish MongoDB Wasn't Relational

Was there a movement of "let's not design databases" and thus this article is needed to rebut it?

Design your database (or organically grow its needs), and you'll wind up breaking things apart appropriately.

_delirium on Feb 2, 2012 [–]

Well, "schemaless" is one of the NoSQL buzzwords, sometimes glossed as "no data model required", which can verge on "don't design your database, just put stuff in it", though nobody actually advocates anything quite that strong.

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