Comment Re:Flamebait in Headline (Score 1) 306
it depends on WHAT?! NoSQL people keep touting features, SQL people keep touting history, neither say "well, RDBMS is best suited for [insert descriptions here], while MongoDB is best suited for [insert descriptions here] and Lucene/Solr is best suited for [insert descriptions here]".
That's why you have to study.
Don't expect people to give you all the answers. Go forth and conquer, aks slashdot
Alternatively, go to school (highschool, university, whatever) and study.
Read books.
"It depends" is true for any tool. And computers are tools, and software is tool (are tools?)
You, aka The User [tm] have to learn how to (best) use your tools and which tools are best for which task. (Perhaps here I might come close enough to accepting the limitation in the EULA that says a program may not be fit for just any use
This is true for hammers, screwdrivers, books, cars... of course, it is also true for computers and such.