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You don't have joins in NoSQL so you have to keep data denormalized. That means data isn't consistent and you can have an will have (at a high enough data volume) errors if you aren't extremely cautious on how you update and add new data. That might matter or not in a particular business case.



I really hope the GP doesn't work on anything handling financial transactions.


If speed it's only thing that matters, he can use /dev/null for writes and /dev/urandom for reads. That's also very scalable.




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