Data Inspired Insights

Month: April 2017

Forget SQL or NoSQL – 5 scenarios where you may not need a database at all

A while back, I attended a hackathon in Belgrade as a mentor. This hackathon was the first ‘open data’ hackathon in Serbia and focused on making applications using data that had recently been released by various ministries, government agencies, and independent bodies in Serbia. As we walked around talking to the various teams, one of the things I noticed at the time, was that almost all teams were using databases to manage their data . In most cases, the database being used was something very lightweight like SQLite3, but in some cases more serious databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB) were also being used.

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