“You’re not Google or Amazon. Stop worrying about scale and just use a relational database.” There is truth in that statement: building for scale that you don’t need is wasted effort and may lock you into an inflexible design.
Most of the stuff Google and Amazon do could be done using a relational database too...
But you will usually get someone in a position of authority who makes a broad, general statement, which then gets taken as gospel, and you can either fight against it, or just accept that your tiny low-traffic application has to use a NoSQL data store.
It's often easier to just give in, or somehow misinterpret the decree so you can use whatever you wanted to use in the first place.
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