Well if NoSQL had called their movement "non-relational databases" that would have been an obviously bad idea, right?
But the idea of never writing SQL again remains compelling to a certain sort of mindset, one which I have been known to share when throwing myself against the proverbial wall.
SQL isn't a bad dialect with which to hand-roll queries against relational data. I'm quite sure there's room for improvement, especially when it comes to generating queries; I've dipped my toes in this and the compiler has to 'think in SQL' eventually, it's not composable in the way that it should be.
But "SQL is annoying and ORMs are terrible" is, from my recollection, the sentiment which gave us the meteoric (pun intended!) rise of Mongo, and "relational modeling isn't negotiable" is the iron fact of our profession which lead to its ignominious fall.
But the idea of never writing SQL again remains compelling to a certain sort of mindset, one which I have been known to share when throwing myself against the proverbial wall.
SQL isn't a bad dialect with which to hand-roll queries against relational data. I'm quite sure there's room for improvement, especially when it comes to generating queries; I've dipped my toes in this and the compiler has to 'think in SQL' eventually, it's not composable in the way that it should be.
But "SQL is annoying and ORMs are terrible" is, from my recollection, the sentiment which gave us the meteoric (pun intended!) rise of Mongo, and "relational modeling isn't negotiable" is the iron fact of our profession which lead to its ignominious fall.