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NoSQL has always been a niche use case thing.
For some stuff, no ACID is no problem. They have their place. What I'm more suspicious of is things like Google offering distributed databases that they pretend as if they could break the CAP theorem.
What's ACID?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID
Atomicity (something happens in its entirety or not at all), consistency (database is always in a valid state
if the database has constraints, they will always be honored), isolation (transactions don't step on each other), durability (complete transaction is complete even if there's a power failure).
Not a database expert, my parenthetical explanations may need work.