NoSQL Movement?

[km]

Hi,

this would be a good place to start
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoSQL
http://nosql-database.org/

HTH,
Krishna

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Avid Fan <me at privacy.net> wrote:

> Jonathan Gardner wrote:
>
>
>> I see it as a sign of maturity with sufficiently scaled software that
>> they no longer use an SQL database to manage their data. At some point
>> in the project's lifetime, the data is understood well enough that the
>> general nature of the SQL database is unnecessary.
>>
>>
> I am really struggling to understand this concept.
>
> Is it the normalised table structure that is in question or the query
> language?
>
> Could you give some sort of example of where SQL would not be the way to
> go.   The only things I can think of a simple flat file databases.
>
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