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What are the best NoSQL databases for a web application?

11th December 2010

My answer to What are the best NoSQL databases for a web application? on Quora

It depends entirely on what you are building. You may well be better off with SQL.

Posted 11th December 2010 at 6:57 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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