Originally published on lavkesh.com I've hit walls with traditional SQL databases while building web applications. Evolving schemas become nightmarish migration scripts, and unstructured data doesn't fit neatly into rows and columns. That's where NoSQL databases come in - they don't replace SQL but solve specific problems. The term 'NoSQL' stands for 'Not Only SQL,' which is a vague name. It covers various database architectures that don't use the relational model with tables, rows, and SQL quer