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Software hipsters are the ones using CouchDB. The relational model has been refined over decades to accommodate the requirements of generic information systems
by pj 17y ago
Software hipsters are the ones using CouchDB. The relational model has been refined over decades to accommodate the requirements of generic information systems and eliminate a lot of the problems that mapreduce-based databases ignore.
CouchDB solves a subset of information problems. The relational model can solve a vastly greater amount of problems.
- psadauskas 17y agoBut both those subsets have very little overlap. CouchDB is great at solving problems that relational databases never can be good at.
- wvenable 17y agoAs far as I can tell, it's great for solving problems people don't actually have and probably creating problems they didn't imagine.