On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, Mark Johnson wrote:
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:57:37 am Peter Ross wrote:
I don't know how people write this stuff on NoSQL these days but it feels like a step back into pre-historic IT times.
I would be interested to know how developers deal with this.
One thing to consider is that it's not necessarily about NoSQL -OR- RDBMS. You can easily use both depending on various data requirements - an application we are working on uses both models for different types of data. For some things like storing session stores or other key=>value data where it isn't essential to rely on foreign keys NoSQL can be quite useful and very efficient.
Yes. I wondered whether it is feasible to build something "you would do with a RDBMS" these days with a cloud-based NoSQL. I have quite respect for this old software I am rewriting - it had to do without and still it is working most of the time. But I also see how much pain it is to maintain this piece. The loss of RDBMS functionality needs a lot of thought, and for my software (as an example) I would be very unhappy if someone is just offering me just a bit of key->value store. Russell considers it because of the complexity of a cluster setup, but he might end up with unhappy developers because of increased application complexity. Regards Peter