I have issues with his &quot;Reasons to use NoSQL&quot;<p>* Making the most of cloud computing and storage<p>There are plenty of &quot;cloud&quot; hosting options for SQL databases, enough that a simple google search should make my point for me.<p>* Rapid development<p>This is a really common reason that I have heard for wanting to use NoSQL databases. It is flat out wrong.<p>While NoSQL databases may not force you into a schema for your database, you will pay a toll for this mutability in your application layer.<p>I have worked on several NoSQL backed projects, and nearly without fail development speed drops like a rock once you make changes to the way your data is persisted.<p>SQL migrations may seem tedious, but the process of planning your data model and having rigid definitions for your data types saves you huge amounts of time in the long run.<p>Data is the foundation of most applications, and if you can&#x27;t rely on your data then you are building your application on sand.