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[Bruce Martin]

Actually there are new innovations in this area where all data is  
stored in flat text files that are indexed. These systems out perform  
many databases, if not all, with little overhead.

Bruce Martin


On Dec 3, 2009, at 7:12 PM, John Campbell <jcampbell1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Ajai Khattri <ajai at bitblit.net> wrote:
>
>> I know MongoDB is cool an' all, but you seem to be pushing it  
>> really hard.
>
> +1.  Why all the non-relational love?
>
> Can you imagine building an e-commercie site with a NoSQL database?
> The products table would quickly become a god table that is
> responsible for everything, and counting products by category would
> require a heroic effort.  Keeping non-relational databases consistent
> requires writing tons of cron jobs to constantly fix the data.
>
> Sure, NoSQL may be better than sharding, but it isn't exactly fun.
>
> Regards,
> John Campbell
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