On 02/03/10 17:07, S.A. Kiehn wrote:
I have a couple of production Catalyst/DBIx::Class sites on Debian
stable, and then on my personal hobby site I use local::lib to try out
new things. Recently I split out my users for this site into a separate
model and I thought it a good exercise to learn and use KiokuDB. It was
just a couple of simple objects, users & roles, but I believe I have a
better understanding of how a schema-less data model would work. All I
do are lookups based on ID or indexed object values, but doing any type
of ordering by dates or titles is a mystery. It seems that the
Search::GIN is to provide this sort of functionality, but it is
under-documented and has not had an update for awhile.
I do not see many posts regarding uses of KiokuDB within Catalyst so I
was curious about the opinion of the community in regards to its usage.
Is it still to early within development?
Also, I have been reading more about the increase in the NoSQL interest,
with a particular interest in the MongoDB database (it seems to be
similar in some respects to KiokuDB), but I do not find Perl people in
the discussion as much as others (Ruby, PHP). Are there developers in
the Catalyst community who lean toward NoSQL concepts over traditional
RDMS's, or is best to view as a tool to use at times?
How about MongoDB? Am I being suckered by another bandwagon?
Also Apache CouchDB.
I'm curious to know how these things work out for what I see as "real
world" cases, where you do actually want to do searches on correlated data.
For instance, say you wanted to make a phpbb-style forum.
You have several forum areas, and within each there are many threads,
each containing many posts.
Would every post in a thread be a new document, or would the entire
thread be one big document? How would they be linked to the forums, by
an ID in the document, or do we get into some kind of mega-document
encapsulating everything on the board?
Say I wanted to do a search for all posts made by users named John in
the forum called Linux, what would the syntax look like?
cheers,
Toby
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