more on playing w/ MongoDB - looking at mongokit (which tries to make an orm-type adapter to mongo), I think this might be a relatively easy basis for a (?) generic document-type-persistence-store...
I don't know how long /far I'll play with it (that it's been this easy so far is a good sign). On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Yarko Tymciurak <yark...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Bottiger <bottig...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> "This discussion should probably be moved to the web2py developers >> group:" >> >> I don't have access to the web2py developers group. But maybe that is >> the point. See why I don't like the separation? > > > Just ask for access to the developers group. > > >> >> I am no novice to open source. I know that not every patch will be >> accepted, but every project has varying levels of acceptance. Adding >> document-database support to the DAL is not a small change, and I >> would not interested in sinking the required large amount of time into >> unless it would be accepted.This is why I first contacted Massimo. >> >> Recently, I had been researching distributed databases for quite some >> time. While I am not a relational algebra expert, I believe that >> document based databases such as Amazon SimpleDB/MongoDB/CouchDB can >> be reasonably translated to and from a relational model. In fact, the >> document based model is closer to an object oriented design since it >> is schema free. > > > Yes, I am just now playing w/ mongo (thanks to your post! ;-) > > Since you've been researching this quite some time, could you give a really > short (1 or 2 paragraph) summary comparing doc-oriented vs. column oriented, > and any intersting implicatinos, performance, unknowns? > > Thanks! > > - Yarko > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
