I think those doc-oriented DBs tend to be distributed, with replication built-in and such, but yes, in some way the schemaless DB with docs and fields (whether they are pumped in as JSON or XML or Java objects) feels the same. I saw something from Grant about 2 months ago how Lucene is "nosql-ish".
Otis ---- Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch Lucene ecosystem search :: http://search-lucene.com/ ----- Original Message ---- > From: Shashi Kant <sk...@sloan.mit.edu> > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Mon, May 31, 2010 12:20:36 PM > Subject: Is Lucene a "document oriented database"? > > There seems to be considerable buzz on the internets about document oriented > dbs such as MongoDB, CouchDB etc. I am at a loss as to what are the principal > differences between Lucene and the "DODBs". I could very use Lucene as any of > the above (schema-free, Document oriented) and perform similar queries, > *with* the added benefit of text search. I fail to see what benefits such > DoDBs bring, or is it old wine in new > bottles? Thanks Shashi --------------------------------------------------------------------- To > unsubscribe, e-mail: > href="mailto:java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org";>java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For > additional commands, e-mail: > ymailto="mailto:java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org"; > href="mailto:java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org";>java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
