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Seriously, after that line I gave up on reading the rest. There's plenty to be said about schema vs no schema but its pretty ignorant to just dismiss the entire concept out of hand.

Guess what - in lots of applications data integrity is more important than developer convenience.

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I made it to the next one before I gave up: "Relational databases grew up solving problems where data integrity was paramount and availability was not a big concern."

Yow... is there a word for the special kind of bubble we're in now, with the profusion of Javascript and schema-free datastore-lovin' folks whose lack of experience in static typing and relational databases does not--in even the slightest way--constrain them from pronouncing their irrelevance?

NoOb ?

that's probably already reserved by some new fad where the notion of objects is considered absurd.

It was colorful language, not dismissal out of hand. It can be hard to communicate emotion online, so it's easy to take offense where none was meant. I think that's what happened here.

Definitely agree on communication of emotion, for instance I'm not offended in the least. :) all I'm saying is its hard for me to take someone's opinions on data stores seriously given that quote.

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