On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 19:14 +0100, Alan Gauld wrote: > On 15/05/12 10:36, Russel Winder wrote: > > ...queries passed over it then year a database it the > > right thing -- though I would probably choose a non-SQL database. > > As a matter of interest why?
Because there are alternatives that need to be investigated on a per
problem basis for the best database.
SQL
MongoDB
CouchDB
Cassandra
Neo
etc. Python only has SQLite3 as standard but there are alternatives. I
have been using PyMongo quite successfully.
> And what kind of alternative would you use?
See above ;-)
> It seems to me that SQL is ideally suited(*) to this type of role. I'm
> curious what the alternatives might be and why they would be preferred?
>
> (*)Because: Flexible query language, wide set of tools including GUI
> query builders, reporting tools etc. Plus easy integration with
> programming environments, scaleability (less an issue here),
> security(usually) etc.
It is not clear that the original table works better with the relational
model compared to one of the key-value stores or document stores. It
might. But I no longer always go to SQL for persistence as I used to a
few years ago.
There are various articles around the Web comparing and contrasting
these various models. Some of the articles are even reasonable :-)
--
Russel.
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