On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Bottiger <bottig...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > "This discussion should probably be moved to the web2py developers > group:" > > I don't have access to the web2py developers group. But maybe that is > the point. See why I don't like the separation? Just ask for access to the developers group. > > I am no novice to open source. I know that not every patch will be > accepted, but every project has varying levels of acceptance. Adding > document-database support to the DAL is not a small change, and I > would not interested in sinking the required large amount of time into > unless it would be accepted.This is why I first contacted Massimo. > > Recently, I had been researching distributed databases for quite some > time. While I am not a relational algebra expert, I believe that > document based databases such as Amazon SimpleDB/MongoDB/CouchDB can > be reasonably translated to and from a relational model. In fact, the > document based model is closer to an object oriented design since it > is schema free. Yes, I am just now playing w/ mongo (thanks to your post! ;-) Since you've been researching this quite some time, could you give a really short (1 or 2 paragraph) summary comparing doc-oriented vs. column oriented, and any intersting implicatinos, performance, unknowns? Thanks! - Yarko --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
