3 Reasons why It’s Okay to Stick with SQL

The past decade has been an extremely exciting one in all matters related to data. We have had:

• An ever increasing amount of data produced by social media (once called “Web 2.0”)
• An ever increasing amount of data produced by devices (a.k.a. the Internet of Things)
• An ever increasing amount of database vendors that explore “new” models

Marketers, publishers, and evangelists coined the term “Big Data” and “NoSQL” to wrap up the fuzzy ideas around persistence technology that have emerged in the last decade. But how big is “Big Data”? Do you do “Big Data”? Do you need to do “Big Data”? The truth is… you don’t. You can keep using the same architecture and relational databases you’ve always had, for these three reasons.

1. RAM prices are crumbling
2. SQL is the best language for querying
3. Procedural languages are ideal for computing

RDBMS have won in the past & will win again.

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