On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 11:16:16PM -0700, Xeno Campanoli wrote: > "Eric G. Miller" wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 04:52:10PM -0700, Xeno Campanoli wrote: > > > I asked this before, and the only answer I got was some obscure crack in > > > German. > > > > > > Is NOSQL still a useful thing, and/or is anyone using it? If so, what > > > kinds of projects is it used for? > > > > As a database management system, it has some shortcomings (performance, > > type checking, blah, blah, blah feature). I suppose someone must've > > found it useful (the author, the Debian packager). Much of the > > functionality can be had with "cut", "paste", "join", "sort", and > > "uniq". When I looked at it, it didn't seem to provide alot of added > > value over textutils... The biggest benefit was all data was stored in > > plain text files (portability). > > So it doesn't sound like anyone's actually used it for real work; at > least not recently?
I dunno. If you're interested, play around with it. Maybe you'll be enamored, maybe not. Maybe we're all dolts for not using it... It's not like it's a big commitment to try it out... -- Eric G. Miller <[email protected]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
