> Integrity should be more important than performance.
Most often it is. But not always. There certainly are cases where speed is far more important than integrity in databases.
I cannot think of a case where this would be true for a RDBMS or even a Document DB (Though MongoDB had different opinions on this...).
But e.g. redis as caching server, or memcached, or even these non-normalized data that I have in a PG that can be reproduced from other sources easily in case of corruption or stale-ness: it's fine to trade in integrity for speed there.
Most often it is. But not always. There certainly are cases where speed is far more important than integrity in databases. I cannot think of a case where this would be true for a RDBMS or even a Document DB (Though MongoDB had different opinions on this...).
But e.g. redis as caching server, or memcached, or even these non-normalized data that I have in a PG that can be reproduced from other sources easily in case of corruption or stale-ness: it's fine to trade in integrity for speed there.