[OT] large db question about no joins

[Daniel Fetchinson]

>> If you think that's bull, why do you think the google app engine or
>> bigtable doesn't support joins?
>
> Join is a relational database concept.  Bigtable is not a relational
> database.  Of course it does lookups, but they are not the same as
> relational joins.

True! I gave a use case that can easily be represented in a relational
database, and what I'm wondering now is how I would represent it in a
bigtable (not relational database) in such a way that I can easily do
the lookups I did when I represented it in a relational database.

Cheers,
Daniel


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