NoSQL vs. MySQL when scalability is irrelevant

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Published on 2010-03-28T20:25:07Z Indexed on 2010/03/28 20:43 UTC
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Recently I have read a lot about different NoSQL databases and how they are being effectively deployed by some major websites out there. I'm starting a project in which I think the schema-free nature of a database such as MongoDB would be tremendously useful. Everything I have read though seems to indicate that the main advantage of a NoSQL database is scalability. Is choosing a NoSQL database for the schema-free design just as legitimate a design decision as that of scalability?

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