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- schema. Maintaining schema and dependencies is hell on all but a small system When you have the tools you have the power.

ChronicDB is not only a hosted solution. It also runs locally.

Sorry for not disclosing I work on ChronicDB. The author of the 6b article kindly provided more information about the time it took for the migration: http://news.ycombinator.com/it…

The toolkit documentation reports limitations. What they really needed is ChronicDB http://chronicdb.com

NoSQL does not support flexibility of schema change. http://chronicdb.com/blogs/nosql_is_technologically_inferior... . Flexibility of schema definition and flexibility of schema ch…

The issue is not performance. The issue is backward compatibility. ALTER TABLE performance will eventually improve. PostgreSQL 9.1 lifts-off the lock-up limitation. But what a perf…

Which part of the Slicehost to Rackspace migration required the additional time that had not been invested? Also, what do BCC and AR refer to?

Now it's time to bring the idea beyond code Exactly! Try versioning data with ChronicDB: http://chronicdb.com

Referential integrity is to databases what pointers are to code. You definitely need it. What's worse than migrations? Being unable to turn an application off, since it uses the ol…

Version data, like source code. $ chd version mydb $ chd revert -d mydb Neither replication nor backups protect from accidentally deleting data. And restoring from binary logs requ…

Not always. An app requiring non-trivial SQL can be an indication of a problem requiring non-trivial workflows. If the problem is complex, you want to model relations, not ignore t…

> "because of the schema-less models." > "I find migrations painful and unnecessary." A schema-less model neither makes a migration less painful nor eliminates it. In MongoDB, what…

(Disclaimer: I work on ChronicDB) I second that: schema-less is misunderstood. There's a difference between flexibility of schema definition and flexibility of schema change[1]. Fl…