On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <rochkind_at_jhu.edu>wrote:
> The thing is, the NoSQL stuff is pretty much just a key-value store.
> There's generally no way to "query" the store, instead you can simply look
> up a document by ID.
>
>
Schemaless != "no way to query".
Key-value stores, like memcache, are just one end of what most consider the
nosql spectrum. For instance, I can query my CouchDB instances through the
different views I create.
I thought this blog post had an interesting take on NoSQL, although this
guy, Mike Stonebreaker of VoltDB, obviously has a horse in the race.
http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/50678-the-nosql-discussion-has-nothing-to-do-with-sql/fulltext
--jay
Received on Mon Apr 12 2010 - 13:44:50 EDT