My guess is it's NoSQL, probably Mongo which seems to be the preferred DB behind a lot of these "real-time" JavaScript frameworks.
On Sunday, June 3, 2012 2:35:34 AM UTC-7, Christian wrote: > > Hello group, > > I found a backend service, mostly for mobile apps, called parse.com. > Looking at their REST documentation (https://parse.com/docs/rest), it > looks like one can e.g. dynamically generate different kind of objects, > which get persistet (see "creating objects" in the docs to see what I > mean). These objects can get relationships to other objects and can also be > queried. So if the client posts GameScore or GameScores, both are valid > (but different) objects (in different tables?) and get persisted, > My questions: how looks sth. like this on the model side? How is this > done? How to model general tables and still make them queryable. Or does > the model generate tables dynamically? Could something like this be modeled > with DAL? > On the controller side: could such a dynamic model be made available via > sth like @request.restful? > > I would be happy for any hint, as I have no idea, how this is done! > > Thanks and regards, > Christian > > P.S.: I also found a open source clone, which rebuilds the iOS client > library and the server with node and MongoDB, if this might be of any help. > I do not speak JS and have no clue about mongo. > https://github.com/eaigner/DataKit > >
