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NoSQL is Dead: Why SQL Won the Database War
The Great Database Hype Cycle Has Finally Ended — And the Old Guard is Laughing
After 15 years of MongoDB evangelism and “web scale” propaganda, it’s time to admit the uncomfortable truth.
The NoSQL revolution is over. Not because it was defeated in some epic technical battle, but because it was never really a revolution to begin with. It was a marketing campaign that got out of hand, sold to developers who confused “different” with “better.”
Today, every major tech company that bet big on NoSQL is quietly migrating back to SQL. The startups that built their entire architecture on document databases are rewriting everything. The “web scale” promises turned into “web fail” realities.
And honestly? It was predictable from day one.
The NoSQL Snake Oil Salesmen
Let’s rewind to 2009. Web 2.0 was hot, “big data” was the buzzword du jour, and suddenly every developer conference had some MongoDB evangelist telling you that relational databases were “dead technology.”
The pitch was seductive:
- “SQL doesn’t scale!”
- “ACID is unnecessary complexity!”
- “Schema-less databases are more agile!”
- “Join operations are…
