How do you design a schema for a database like this?

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The setup offers a smart schema to distill a range of responses, from sympathy to revenge, that, as in a Western, distills great social forces to intimate issues.

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For example, under Rand's schema would a person who abandons some passion in order to look after an elderly parent have a higher or lower moral standing than someone who doesn't (assuming that the parents are equally worthy)?

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Up-front schema design is a poor fit in a world where data requirements are fluid.

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Now, RDBMS and SQL somewhat goes directly against the principles that forced Hadoop to be created in the first place, which is requirement to have a predefined structure (known as a schema) of the data being stored.

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The lack of a formal schema, which typically has to be designed before any code is written, means that schemaless databases are a better fit for current software development practices, such as agile development.

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Even with a broadband connection and a sophisticated file-sharing schema like BitTorrent, illegally downloading and swapping movies is far more difficult than trading songs.

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