Many developers still struggle to understand which application scenarios might benefit from utilizing a document database or a relational database. Both of these options are powerful and many vendors have great products ready to build on. Unfortunately not one size fits all and there are definite scenarios where choosing one or the other will give your application architecture a leg up. There are also scenarios where a hybrid of using both a document database and a relational database might be the best choice.
We will discuss the benefits and tradeoffs of each option, how they differ, and give real-world design tips to consider when building on either. We will also discuss the current options available for database platforms in both the relational and document DB space. Many examples of real code and architectures will be given.