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How can one learn something that is defined by what it is not.
by perfunctory 15y ago
How can one learn something that is defined by what it is not.
- virmundi 15y agoThis thought is not mine, but I cannot recall the source: NoSQL is a bad name; it should be NotSQL. As a result it is a very large umbrella. When one sees NoSQL it is a safe assumption to think MongoDB. But you could also think DB4O (I like this much more, in an abstract way). So you can go about learning any of these technologies since you find an instance of NotSQL. To learn NoSQL, you are really still able to learn this. You are learning a philosophy rather than a technology.
- nickknw 15y agoI remember reading something by Erik Meijer where he states he also thinks it is an unfortunate name. I think he suggested coSQL, and gave an interesting perspective on the relationship between SQL and noSQL. This was the article: http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/4/106584-a-co-relational-model-of-data-for-large-shared-data-banks http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/4/106584-a-co-relational-...