[jQuery] Re: Ten(14) Reasons why Couchdb is better than Mysql (Off topic - might be interesting)

2009-01-04 Thread leveille
On almost every list that I'm subscribed to this guy posted the same message. Unless you have a use case, and are comparing the two with regards to the use case (why one would be a better choice than the other), a comparison such as yours only illustrates how much you have to learn about CouchDB.

[jQuery] Re: Ten(14) Reasons why Couchdb is better than Mysql (Off topic - might be interesting)

2009-01-03 Thread Romain
CouchDB is different then MySQL, you can't compare ! "Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database" Mysql is a relationnal database management system So i think there's no reason why one could be better than another. But, i got some 10 really g

[jQuery] Re: Ten(14) Reasons why Couchdb is better than Mysql (Off topic - might be interesting)

2009-01-03 Thread Richard D. Worth
Also worth a read: CouchDB Expectations http://www.davispj.com/posts/10 " The most important part of this entire post is the following statement: The only time when CouchDB should be considered as a replacement for an RDBMS is when an RDBMS was the wrong choice in the first place. Just as CouchD

[jQuery] Re: Ten(14) Reasons why Couchdb is better than Mysql (Off topic - might be interesting)

2009-01-03 Thread Richard D. Worth
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 manage

[jQuery] Re: Ten(14) Reasons why Couchdb is better than Mysql (Off topic - might be interesting)

2009-01-03 Thread donb
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