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SQL vs. NoSQL Is the Wrong Distinction

by Utsav Shah softwareatscale.dev published 2021-08-24

A misconception that I held for a really long time was that systems that use SQL (Structured Query Language) are by definition relational databases, and systems that don’t (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra) are non-relational. It’s easy to understand whether a database uses SQL or not, but what does it mean when we say a…

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