Re: [Dhis2-devs] mongodb instead of RDMBS

2010-05-21 Thread Jason Pickering
While on the subject of different db paradigms, I have been playing around with LucidDB, a column based DB, which theoretically should be more efficient for data warehousing operations than a transactional DB like Postgres or MySQL. I have not managed to get it to work yet (there is a Postgresql co

Re: [Dhis2-devs] mongodb instead of RDMBS

2010-05-20 Thread Bob Jolliffe
While on the subject of different db paradigms, there is also apache jackrabbit which is better suited for the storage of tree like structures (particularly xml) than traditional rdbms. There are a number of things which we currently store on the file system in the conf directory for example. The

Re: [Dhis2-devs] mongodb instead of RDMBS

2010-05-20 Thread Knut Staring
Don't know much about it, but doesn't seem targeted at applications heavy with numerical data? The JSON focus should go well with Javascript GUIs, I guess. "MongoDB is designed for problems without heavy transactional requirements that aren't easily solved by traditional RDBMSs, including problems

[Dhis2-devs] mongodb instead of RDMBS

2010-05-20 Thread Ngoc Thanh Nguyen
That sounds interesting. No database, no table, or hibernate mapping. Fast query, high performance. What we want more? http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Java+Tutorial Anyone have ideas about this? Thanh ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-