NoSQL Movement?

[Philip Semanchuk]

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.