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It would be great if there was a very basic web site that could guide you to the most suitable storage solution based on the problem you are working on. Sorta l

It would be great if there was a very basic web site that could guide you to the most suitable storage solution based on the problem you are working on. Sorta like a guide or wizard. I think it's a shame that the movement is called NoSQL because it sorta creates this false dichotomy that the field of web data storage is divided in two camps. In reality, you need to, as always, pick the right solution for the problem you are facing. NoSQL databases will never entirely replace SQL databases and I think it's important to not shoehorn NoSQL in places where it doesn't really belong.

MediaBehavior 15y ago
To your request for such a guide I would like to request: Documentation of the technological overhead: the soft/hardware/sys_admin_experience overhead required by each (and the hosts offering such support overhead for them - compared for example to support for MySQL :/ ).
btilly 15y ago
The best such comparison that I've seen is http://kkovacs.eu/cassandra-vs-mongodb-vs-couchdb-vs-redis http://kkovacs.eu/cassandra-vs-mongodb-vs-couchdb-vs-redis.
andrewl 15y ago
Philip Greenspun has a short article on the subject at: http://philip.greenspun.com/teaching/three-day-rdbms/beyond-the-rdbms http://philip.greenspun.com/teaching/three-day-rdbms/beyond-... And there's a discussion about the article on his blog: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2011/01/13/rdbms-versus-nosql-article-drafted/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2011/01/13/rdbms-versus-n...