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There are couple factors:

1. fast hardware, ie. SSD and a lot of RAM allow nowdays to run classic SQL engines without understanding much how to make them perform. All these "millions" or records fit in RAM these days.

2. availability of SQL[-like to various degree] frontends to NoSQL engines.



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