About the time the nosql movement started to get legs, I started to get interested in relational databases.  They’re awesome beasts, and horizontal scalability issues aside, they handle a lot of the very hard problems in the web programming space (i.e. durability and concurrency).  But when data gets large and you can’t find the 2 million quarters in your sofa for that oracle license (or the 2 million braincells for that oh-so-perfect sharding scheme),  the nosql databases start to show their appeal. Read more »