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Yes, humans think in hierarchies, but they think in multiple hierarchies. You’re in one hierarchy at work, another in your family, another at your Karate dojo.

This cannot be represented in a single hierarchy. In non-relational you therefore end up duplicating data and suffer the associated ACID and performance issues. The only reason people are fine with it is because they don’t care about data integrity and won’t fix these problems in hindsight, but that’s what the non-relational database developers tell them to do since they declare it’s not their responsibility.



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