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By "NoSQL" I'm referring distributed key/value stores. I know that's not quite right, there are other kinds. Also, I'm not saying that NoSQL doesn't have any p
by geophile 16y ago
By "NoSQL" I'm referring distributed key/value stores. I know that's not quite right, there are other kinds.
Also, I'm not saying that NoSQL doesn't have any purpose. It definitely does, and long before NoSQL was hot, there were standalone b-trees like BerkeleyDB, Faircom and many others. It may have been unfair for me to drag NoSQL into this, but the question sure sounded like it was suggesting that the sun was setting on SQL due to something, and NoSQL was a reasonable guess for what that something was.
- madhouse 16y agoYep, that was my interpretation of the question too. But I wouldn't have put down the document or key/value stores so harshly, since they do have their uses, even outside of high-scalability scenarios. As for BerkeleyDB and the rest: I'm not too familiar with them, but my impression before was that querying them wasn't as elegant as it is with some of the recent key/value or document stores. Probably that's the reason these new things receive such a hype: they do have something for them, even if the hype makes those bigger than they really are.