Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Four Reasons to Love CouchDB, Part 2 | A.J. Brown's Blog

Four Reasons to Love CouchDB, Part 2 | A.J. Brown's Blog: 


"Reason #2: It’s not a RDBMS"

RDMS’s are powerful, but sometimes they’re overkill for our applications. I’ve seen some hypothesis suggesting that CouchDB’s document oriented strategy would work for 90% of web applications today. Who knows how accurate that is, but it definitely makes you think. After all, you can’t get any more cutting edge than a database engine asking us to rethink how we model data which is written in a language that asks us to rethink parallel processing.

Check back tomorrow for Reason #3

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