On Mar 3, 3:54 pm, ccc31807 <carte...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mar 3, 12:36 pm, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > recently i wrote a blog article on The NoSQL Movement > > athttp://xahlee.org/comp/nosql.html > > > i'd like to post it somewhere public to solicit opinions, but in the > > 20 min or so, i couldn't find a proper newsgroup, nor private list > > that my somewhat anti-NoSQL Movement article is fitting. > > I only read the first two paragraphs of your article, so I can't > respond to it. > > I've halfway followed the NoSQL movement. My day job is a database > manager and I so SQL databases for a living, as well as Perl. I see a > lot of abuse of relational databases in the Real World, as well as a > lot of abuse for non-SQL alternatives, e.g., (mis)using Excel for a > database. The big, enterprise database we have at work is built on IBM > UniQuery, which is a non-SQL flat file database product, so I've had a > lot of experience with big non-SQL database work. > > I've also developed a marked preference for plain text databases. For > a lot of applications they are simpler, easier, and better. I've also > had some experience with XML databases, and find that they are ideal > for applications with 'ragged' data. > > As with anything else, you need to match the tool to the job. Yes, I > feel that relational database technology has been much used, and much > abused. However, one of my favorite applications is Postgres, and I > think it's absolutely unbeatable
It is beatable outside of its sweetspot, like any system. NoSQL is not so much about "beating" relational databases, as simply a blanket term for useful non-relational technologies. There's not much point in reading Xah beyond the heading of his manifesto, as it is no more relevant to be "anti-NoSQL" as to be "anti-integers" because they don't store fractions. > where you have to store data and "relational data" > perform a large number of queries. Why does the number matter? > > Finally, with regard to Structured Query Language itself, I find that > it's well suited to its purpose. I hand write a lot of SQL statements > for various purposes, and while like any language you find it > exceedingly difficult to express concepts that you can think, it > mostly allows the expression of most of what you want to say. > > CC. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
