See also http://couchdb.apache.org/docs/intro.html
" What CouchDB is * A document database server, accessible via a RESTful JSON API. * Ad-hoc and schema-free with a flat address space. * Distributed, featuring robust, incremental replication with bi-directional conflict detection and management. * Query-able and index-able, featuring a table oriented reporting engine that uses Javascript as a query language. What it is Not * A relational database. * A replacement for relational databases. * An object-oriented database. Or more specifically, meant to function as a seamless persistence layer for an OO programming language. " - Richard On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 5:34 PM, donb <falconwatc...@comcast.net> wrote: > > I think it's rather bold to say 'better' rather than just > 'different.' It's unclear how a couchDB database would fare with > perhaps 50 million items stored in it, or if couchDB would be at all > suitable for answering queries such as 'how many salespeople reached > their quotas during the last quarter.' Further, the 'benefit' of a > schemaless database seems undesirable to any application where data > integrity and transaction processing are important. There was a time > that Microsoft Access was similarly touted as 'the best' because > anyone and everyone could whip up a database with no experience. > Many, if not most, of these were horrendous mishmashes of gobbledegook > that performed badly and were nightmarish to maintain after awhile. > > So while I have no direct experience with couchDB, I feel confident > saying it is not absolutely better than mysql, but that it might be > better in some situation(s) and much worse in others. > > > On Jan 3, 4:04 pm, mobiledream...@gmail.com wrote: > > http://pylab.blogspot.com/2009/01/ten-reasons-why-couchdb-is-better-t... > > > > Guys I wrote up a small list of reasons why i think couchdb is way > bettter > > than mysql. Do let me know what you think > > > > -- > > Gpirate the top torrent search enginehttp://gpirate.com >
