On 05/21/2013 08:05 AM, Ihe Onwuka wrote:
Same story on the backend, when it comes to query flexible documents, XQuery
has answered a lot of questions that the NoSQL community is only starting to
discover and yet it seems that there is a cultural gap between the two
communities.
Re NoSQL and a bit of a digression. but could same the same about
IMS/DB, IDMS or any of the old network/hierarchical databases. Perhaps
the issue with NoSQL is that they like to believe (or at least behave
as if ) they are doing something new and unique.
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The difference is the ready availability of huge computing resources and
datasets to a large number of entry-level programmers and data users,
for want of a better word. I think the XQuery model is great for what
it provides to those willing to scale the mountain, but it also seems as
if there is a big "niche" for a system that provides easy
query/processing/storage etc capabilities at enormous scale for low
intellectual investment. Look at Google - one box, type anything, get
something not totally wrong usually. It's a low barrier in terms of
query capability, but an enormous amount of data and usability for
(almost) *everyone*. NoSQL databases are a few steps up from that in
terms of data modeling and query language, but what they are really
trying to offer is easy scaling.
-Mike
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