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The term NoSQL is catchy but wrong. Some databases with strong theory backing them up, are fall under the NoSQL umbrella and others which are ad hoc and a huge step backwards are too.

I think the ultimate lesson we've re-learned is to use graph, hierarchical, and relational databases in an appropriate manner and to make engineering tradeoffs around consistency as needed. NoSQL is a crappy name for this lesson.

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