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Sunday, 10 April 2011
MongoDB: The Future of Databases?
I've been having a look at NoSQL databases recently, to see what all the fuss is about, and have become rather enamoured of MongoDB. It's early days, but I've found it to be rather intriguing. Throw away all you've learned about data storage and start afresh, storing data structures, rather than just data.
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Looks interesting, have you written any code that uses it? Nice to see Delphi drivers for it - Delphi != R.I.P. ;-).
ReplyDeleteGoogle big table is another interesting structure based database:
http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable.html
Bit less accessible though...
It's not bad. I've got it installed on the laptop and working though the examples in the book. I just wanted to see what all the fuss was about NoSQL databases.
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