NoSQL Movement?

Bruno Desthuilliers bruno.42.desthuilliers at websiteburo.invalid
Fri Mar 5 05:54:28 EST 2010


Philip Semanchuk a écrit :
> 
> On Mar 3, 2010, at 5:41 PM, Avid Fan 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.
> 
> Well, Zope is backed by an object database rather than a relational one.

And it ended up being a *major* PITA on all Zope projects I've worked on...



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