On Mon, 11 Oct 2010, Carlos Mennens wrote:
Just wondering how you guys feel about NoSQL and I just wanted to share the following article... http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10770 Looking to read your feedback and / or opinions.
Carlos, I stopped reading LJ several years ago, but that's a very interesting article ... for the first couple of pages. IMNSHO, there is no conflict between SQL/RDBMS and the various flavors of NoSQL. It's a case of horses for courses or vehicles for uses. You would probably not want to use a semi-tractor to run errands around town, yet it's ideal for hauling three large semi-trailers across the country on the Interstate Highway System. Similarly, you would not use a spreadsheet to store and retrieve massive amounts of data (well, most of us wouldn't) when a database is called for. And, despite what we see all too frequently when biological data (of the bugs and bunnies variety) are analyzed is the use of parametric statistics when the data are not parametrically distributed, but most folks do not know non-parametric equivalents and their Excel(R) spreadsheets don't have those formulae built in. It appears from the article that NoSQL in its various incarnations is well suited for some Web-based applications. For those applications it's better by measures considered important by the application owners than the SQL rdbms that have been used. It's not a case of one-size-solution-fits-all, but of developing a better tool for a specific application or class of applications. And that's my $2.00 worth. Rich -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
