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What do you mean by impressive "ease of execution"? How terse the code is? How easy the code is to read? How likely the code is to be correct? How flexible the

• intinig 18y ago
  The code is easy to read, and the data model is as flexible as you want it to be, since it's schemaless. Reasoning about what the code does is simple once you shift your paradigm to document from relational.
  • old-gregg 18y ago
    Do your research. "document-based" DBs already "ruled the world" right until relational databases were invented, which quickly obsoleted them. The only advantage of disk-backed hash table is ease of scalability, this is why they're useful for hm.... top 0.005% of web sites, who handle thousands of updates per second.
    • jshen 18y ago
      They are also useful for rapid app development or prototyping. I've used couchdb this way a few times and it works great.