Comment The Fuck? (Score 4, Insightful) 175
>This isn't a problem if every single entry fits into exactly the same format, but how often is the world that generous?
> What if two people share the same address but not the same account?
You dont make it a unique field?
> What if you want to have three lines to the address instead of two?
You have an empty field?
> Who hasn’t tried to fix a relational database by shoehorning too much data into a single column? Or else you end up adding yet another column, and the table grows unbounded.
Yeah, I cant read this crap considering the very next section is 'Disk space is cheap'. If it's cheap, who cares about 1 extra field in the database.
Remember guys MongoDB is webscale