On 2011-03-26 13:01:44 -0400, frosty <frostyj (AT) bogus (DOT) invalid> said:

A little. What do you want to do with it?

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Kevin Powick

No plans to replace uniData with this; just interested
in the technology and wondered if anybody in teh group
had any experience with CouchDB from which they could
compare/contrast with the Pick-like stuffs.

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frosty

On 2011-03-26 21:40:50 -0400, frosty <frostyj (AT) bogus (DOT) invalid> said:

CouchDB and others of its ilk (MongoDB, Cassandra, etc, etc) aren't
really too comparable. Though an MV database could be made to emulate
a key-value or document store to a degree, the MV implementation would
be lacking. Though some would argue that key-value databases are
somewhat lacking as well.

First off, these NoSQL (not only SQL) databases are definitely not
RDBMS or MV replacements. They fulfil a niche of use-case scenarios
that actually differs quite a bit between product implementations. For
example, while CouchDB and MongoDB are similar and have some
overlapping functionality, they are really specialized to different
tasks.

Overall, I think these NoSQL databases are interesting for the
problems they attempt to solve, but they are still rather immature and
suffer from a complete lack of standards that we enjoy in the
relational and MV world. IOW, one NoSQL database is not a drop-in
replacement for another. It's a complete rewrite. Choose wisely.

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Kevin Powick