Greg, there is an article on the Red Gate / Simple-Talk website that you may be
interested to read –
Does NoSQL = NoDBA?
https://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/opinion-pieces/does-nosql--nodba
In passing, the author mentions a number of other NoSQL database systems -
MongoDB, CouchDB, Cassandra, Riak, Voldemort.
What interested me was the discussion of the CAP Theorem (in the context of
distributed systems, Big Data) and “eventual consistency” of NoSQL queries,
versus the enforced consistency of relational databases.
From my reading, the absence of (a wider range of) typed data fields for NoSQL
databases is probably because of their irrelevance - and the absence of GUID
fields is of no concern in the context of their principal use cases.
_
Ian Thomas
Albert Park, Victoria
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of Greg Keogh
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2014 7:35 AM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: SQLite déjà vu again
Well, it's not all hugs and puppies, as BrightstarDB failed my very first test
to use it in a real application. Its Entity Framework like layer does not
support Guid properties. This is utterly inconceivable and unexpected, and it
renders the library completely useless to me. I have posted into their forum
suggesting that adding unconditional support for Guids must be of the highest
priority -- Greg K
On 31 October 2014 18:36, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote:
On 30 October 2014 19:19, osjasonrobe...@gmail.com wrote:
BrightstarDB - http://brightstardb.com/ may be of interest…
After fiddling with this for half an hour I'm starting to think this product is
a work of art! It's pleasing to discover a managed product that is well
thought-out, elegantly layered, (quite) well documented, well tooled,
uncluttered, and free. I had the samples working in minutes without a glitch,
and most importantly they worked in a really familiar style.
You can work with two lower levels of API or at the higher entity level. They
have VS templates to add interfaces from which a T4 template will generate
EF-like entities. In fact they've mimicked EF with amazing fidelity, even
relationship collections. It's weird to find a NoSql database that supports
joins. I don't know yet how much of EF's IQueryable behaviour they've
reproduced. They foolishly seem to have created their own query language called
SPARQL.
I'm going to investigate BrightstarDB in much more detail and I'll report any
startling news. Anyone else here using it?
Greg K
