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I would agree that MapReduce and NoSQL are different things, but so are NoSQL and AJAX. I've always thought of NoSQL as a class of durable, distributed lookup
by adamtj 16y ago
I would agree that MapReduce and NoSQL are different things, but so are NoSQL and AJAX.
I've always thought of NoSQL as a class of durable, distributed lookup tables, and the style of programming which uses such tools as a primary data store. It's basically bdb scaled up with nice libraries built on top. Document databases seem to me to be api sugar.
- ubercore 16y agoSorry, didn't mean to imply that NoSQL and AJAX had any relation. I was just using it as an example of an overly broad term that came to mean more than it possibly should have (ie, any advanced Javascript was/is called AJAX, whether it uses XHR and xml or not). This article seems to take NoSQL down that path, by putting MapReduce under its umbrella.
- adamtj 16y agoI see, and I agree, both terms are overly broad.