Data modeling

So here's a thoughtful post about why relational databases aren't always the right thing to do. TL;DR - Oracle's standard order management model has 126 tables, and surely that's sometimes overkill.

This is exactly what I mean with the notion of semantic programming. Semantic structures have sliding levels of detail, and the actual number of tables or location of things in RDBMS or NoSQL or whatever should have no effect whatsoever on the actual semantics of the problem domain.

So: food for thought. It's a good article.