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Which NoSQL Platform is Right For You?

15 points by tzury 16y ago

vyrotek 16y ago
Where is Windows Azure Table Storage?
- tzury 16y ago
  that would never be a right choice I guess - See, in a world without walls, who needs Windows?
  - vyrotek 16y ago
    Its no different than Amazon Simple DB.
tbrownaw 16y ago
Is that really a sane question to ask? "I don't know what my datastore requirements are, but I do know I don't want anything that supports this particular standardized interface. What's available?"
- sjs 16y ago
  They should include all datastores and recommend the best one, be it relational, k/v, document, or whatever.
sjs 16y ago
Top 7 results for me: Voldemort, Scalaris, Cassandra, Riak, Tokyo Tyrant, Terrastore, CouchDB. We're already using Riak and have no plans to change.
- cherring 16y ago
  Yeah, Riak was suspiciously absent from the choices ... That's the one I like the best at the moment.
moomba 16y ago
Not sure I'd call neo4j NoSQL. Its a graph DB as listed in the link. Is the new trend to call any data store that is not SQL, NoSQL. I even heard Lucene being called NoSQL, http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2010/04/30/nosql-lucene-and-solr/ http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2010/04/30/nosql-lucene.... I guess search engines are NoSQL now?
- amock 16y ago
  What is NoSQL if not databases that aren't based on SQL?
- simonw 16y ago
  I consider something like Solr to belong to the NoSQL family, even though full text engines predate the term by decades. NoSQL to me means thinking about storage options beyond a RDBMS.
jeberle 16y ago
The survey doesn't include BerkeleyDB? Half the packages are either built on it or are knock-offs. VSAM KSDS, anyone? Booyeah!
- jedsmith 16y ago
  Response of most of the NoSQL advocates I've spoken to: BerkeleyDB was written before I was a programmer, therefore it cannot be trusted since it's "old".
dermatthias 16y ago
Why is CouchDB taken out when I choose "Object-oriented: No" ? To quote the CouchDB website: "What it is Not" An object-oriented database. Or more specifically, meant to function as a seamless persistence layer for an OO programming language.
petervandijck 16y ago
Without any info about your requirements, MySQL is most likely the best choice for now. Also, the same as with programming languages, at some point it doesn't really matter.

15 points by tzury 16y ago

vyrotek 16y ago

Where is Windows Azure Table Storage?

tzury 16y ago
that would never be a right choice I guess - See, in a world without walls, who needs Windows?
- vyrotek 16y ago
  Its no different than Amazon Simple DB.

tbrownaw 16y ago

Is that really a sane question to ask? "I don't know what my datastore requirements are, but I do know I don't want anything that supports this particular standardized interface. What's available?"

sjs 16y ago
They should include all datastores and recommend the best one, be it relational, k/v, document, or whatever.

sjs 16y ago

Top 7 results for me: Voldemort, Scalaris, Cassandra, Riak, Tokyo Tyrant, Terrastore, CouchDB. We're already using Riak and have no plans to change.

cherring 16y ago
Yeah, Riak was suspiciously absent from the choices ... That's the one I like the best at the moment.

moomba 16y ago

Not sure I'd call neo4j NoSQL. Its a graph DB as listed in the link. Is the new trend to call any data store that is not SQL, NoSQL. I even heard Lucene being called NoSQL, http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2010/04/30/nosql-lucene-and-solr/ http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2010/04/30/nosql-lucene.... I guess search engines are NoSQL now?

amock 16y ago
What is NoSQL if not databases that aren't based on SQL?
simonw 16y ago
I consider something like Solr to belong to the NoSQL family, even though full text engines predate the term by decades. NoSQL to me means thinking about storage options beyond a RDBMS.

jeberle 16y ago

The survey doesn't include BerkeleyDB? Half the packages are either built on it or are knock-offs. VSAM KSDS, anyone? Booyeah!

jedsmith 16y ago
Response of most of the NoSQL advocates I've spoken to: BerkeleyDB was written before I was a programmer, therefore it cannot be trusted since it's "old".

dermatthias 16y ago

Why is CouchDB taken out when I choose "Object-oriented: No" ? To quote the CouchDB website: "What it is Not" An object-oriented database. Or more specifically, meant to function as a seamless persistence layer for an OO programming language.

petervandijck 16y ago

Without any info about your requirements, MySQL is most likely the best choice for now. Also, the same as with programming languages, at some point it doesn't really matter.