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Ted Dziuba has a post about “ I can’t wait for NoSQL to Die ”. The basic argument he makes is that one has to be at the size Google is to really benefit from NoSQL. I think he is missing the point. Here are my observations. This is similar to the argument the traditional DB vendors were making when companies started switching away from the likes of Oracle/DB2 to MySQL. The difference between then and now is that before it was Large established databases vendors against the smaller (open-source) ones, and now its RDBMS vs non-RDBMS datastores. Why NoSQL : The biggest difference between an RDBMS and a NoSQL datastore is the fact that NoSQL datastructures have no pre-defined schemas. That doesn’t mean that the developers don’t have to think about the data structure before using a NoSQL solution, but it does provide the opportunity to developers to add new columns which were not thought of at design time with little or no impact on applications using it. You can add a