Tongue lodged deeply -- so deeply -- in cheek: http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/1016320617/mongodb-is-web-scale#
NSFW if your co-workers don't like to hear computer-generated swears. :) Cheers, -Nate On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Luciano Ramalho <luci...@ramalho.org> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Bill Dueber <b...@dueber.com> wrote: >> Oops. I just found a better overview than I can provide, at >> http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Comparing+Mongo+DB+and+Couch+DB > > I was just about to send that link. > >> There are lots of other players in this space, too -- see >> http://nosql-database.org/ > > It depends on how you define "that space". There are lots of players > in the non-relational, AKA, NoSQL space, but in the document oriented > space I don't know of any other current contender other than MongoDB > and CouchDB. Do you? > > Comparing Riak, Cassandra and MongoDB is like comparing a golf cart, a > fork lift and a fire engine. They are just too different. > > But i'd say MongoDB and CouchDB belong in the same category, though > MongoDB is optimized for performance in cluster, deployed in a single > datacenter, with master-slave replication, and CouchDB is designed for > easy and reliable distributed deployment with master-master > replication among nodes that are not always online. > > Their conceptual data model is very similar (JSON and BSON), so it's a > snap to migrate data from CouchDB to MongoDB (the opposite maybe more > complicated depending on the dataset, because BSON has more primitive > types than JSON). > > Where I work [1] we are doing pilot projects with CouchDB, but we also > envision using CouchDB as the main repository for content creation, > and pushing data to MongoDB for high demand services, if we find out > that CouchDB can't handle the traffic. > > [1] http://regional.bvsalud.org/php/index.php?lang=en > > -- > Luciano Ramalho > programador repentista || stand-up programmer > Twitter: @luciano >
