The one difference is that many NoSQL stores don't have a fixed schema, so you have the option of having arbitrary properties. That's what I'd handle with oMM()
On Jan 7, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Barney Boisvert wrote: > I don't think that a non-sql database and a strongly typed object > model are incompatible at all. Consider a blog (yeah, I know), you > might have blog, author, entry, and comment entities, along with blog, > author, and entry collections in your database. Comments are stored > as an array of subdocuments within the appropriate entry document. > > Regardless of the implementation, your in-memory domain model and your > durable persistence are totally divorced from each other. Or at least > they should be. There's obviously glue code that is implementation > specific for doing persistence operations, but that should be > encapsulated. So aside from that glue code, you shouldn't have to > change much architecturally. > > Obviously if you're looking at some of the large-scale benefits of a > non-sql database (e.g., Couch's autosharding) that's gonig to > influence your application design. But the "non-sql" aspect isn't > doing the influencing - you'd need the same design considerations if > you were using a RDBMS that did autosharding. > > cheers, > barneyb > > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Henry <[email protected]> wrote: >> How do you architect the CF backend model w/ NoSQL that are simple, >> flexible, efficient and clean? >> >> Since NoSQL doc has no fixed schema like SQL row, it doesn't really fit well >> with Objects which are rather static. Therefore the typical Bean+DAO+Service >> OOP architecture doesn't seem to fit well. >> >> I'm thinking of using plain old Struct's, but then I cannot add behavior >> onto it and it's going to make the whole project very procedural, which may >> not be a bad thing? >> >> However, if I just use plain old struct, the DB implementations is leaked >> everywhere including the View layer... >> >> Or... shall I translate the array's into CF's Query object for the View >> layer? >> >> Comment? Idea? Suggestion? >> >> Thanks! >> >> p.s. also asked >> here: >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4622121/nosql-with-coldfusion-beanservicedao-oop-or-good-old-array-struct-procedur >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "CFCDev" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/cfcdev?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > Barney Boisvert > [email protected] > http://www.barneyb.com/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CFCDev" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/cfcdev?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CFCDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfcdev?hl=en.
