Recently I was building a solution for managing some contents. I used a document oriented database for storing the actual contents. In this particular scenario, I used CouchDB. First a POC was built, just to get an idea of the domain and what was possible to achieve, given a fixed amount of resource…
Daniel Wertheim
In the family of NOSQL stores there is a particular family, focusing on storing semi-structured data as ONE unit called a document. This family is called: “document stores. It’s most often represented by a JSON-blob. When it comes to ACID-compliance, it’s “guaranteed” for ONE document. Either it acc…
Daniel Wertheim
This will be a really short post and will be about the whole flexible schemas in NoSQL land and how easy it is to store data and let the design of it evolve by time. “You just throw some JSON in there and then start harvest the data with some nifty queries.” I’m saying, no you are not freed from not…
Daniel Wertheim
I’ve been discussing the “schemaless” view of NoSQL with some fellow developers and have been tweeting a bit about it and yesterday I started to read a new book: “NoSQL Distilled – A brief guide to the emerging world of polygot persistence, Pramod J.Sadalage & Martin Fowler (2013)” (Sadalage &am…
Daniel Wertheim
> The N+1 is evil. I want referential integrity. I want... "Hold it right there Mr!" A document-oriented Db (DOD) is not an RDBMS! If you are having an N+1 scenario or feeling a pain with references, you should probably first have a look at your model and your chosen data-persistence…
Daniel Wertheim