You have some catching up to do... :) They are not at all concerned about normal form or joins - it's just not that kind of a database. Here are some good blo

You have some catching up to do... :) They are not at all concerned about normal form or joins - it's just not that kind of a database. Here are some good blog posts that elaborate on the current non-RDBMS fad: http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2009/02/is-the-relational-database-doomed.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2009/02/is-the-relati... http://www.metabrew.com/article/anti-rdbms-a-list-of-distributed-key-value-stores/ http://www.metabrew.com/article/anti-rdbms-a-list-of-distrib... http://randomfoo.net/2009/04/20/some-notes-on-distributed-key-stores http://randomfoo.net/2009/04/20/some-notes-on-distributed-ke... http://bcbio.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/evaluating-key-value-and-document-stores-for-short-read-data/ http://bcbio.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/evaluating-key-value-a... http://blog.boxedice.com/2009/07/25/choosing-a-non-relational-database-why-we-migrated-from-mysql-to-mongodb/ http://blog.boxedice.com/2009/07/25/choosing-a-non-relationa...