Difficult evolution - Simpler, Faster, Easier evolution
Suitable for Financial Portals - Suitable for non-financial web-based applications
Safe - Fast
Shared Something (Disk, Memory) - Shared Nothing
Scale UP (limited) - Scale Out (Unlimited)
Simple Code, robust database - Complex code, simple database
Single Machine - A cluster
CA - AP/CA/CP, i.e. any 2 out of 3.
Scale Vertically - Scale Horizontally
SQL - Custom APIs
Full Indexes - Indexing is mostly on Keys