[nycphp-talk] MongoDB and others, convince me. :-)
Edward Potter
edwardpotter at gmail.com
Fri Dec 4 09:42:20 EST 2009
You may enjoy playing with Core Data using ObjC on an iPhone. Kind of the
next evolution I think.
I stick to SQLite these days. It guides the cruise missile and probably your
watch. I guess after 20 years playing with DBs (and still learning
something new everyday), going back to my roots now. ;-)
http://cocoadevcentral.com/articles/000085.php
http://www.sqlite.org/
:-)
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Chris Snyder <chsnyder at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Gary Mort <garyamort at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ok, so since someone has been singing the praises of MongoDB, and others
> > have been mentioned, I figured I'd provide a contrarian view and see if
> you
> > can convince me otherwise.
>
> I kind of think they are different tools for different jobs. NoSQL has
> risen out of the need for massively scalable databases. For the vast
> majority of apps, using one is overkill, and probably leads to the
> kind of messy data access and reporting scenarios you envision.
>
> In other words, that "How do I query it?" "You write a map reduce
> function in Erlang." cartoon is right on the money.
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