MChau wrote: >I'm begin to study jbase and noSQL. >I wanted to know if I can consider jbase as a NoSQL DBMS
From: Sparro > I certainly don't see why not, seeing as how jBASE is not SQL. We've discussed this topic recently in other forums. The answer depends on who you talk to. If you think of NoSQL as "Not Only SQL", then jBase certainly qualifies as an alternative to the RDBMS model. The jBase data model is great for business applications. It's easy to create databases and tables, to maintain schema, and to write and maintain programs. It's very scalable and (for better or worse) doesn't confine the developer/admin to rules the way a SQL-based system will. Yes, this can be exactly what some NoSQL people are looking for - and it would be great if it was marketed to that audience as such. *cough* If you think of NoSQL as being BigData, cloud-computing, or some intersection of Hadoop and MongoDB, then jBase doesn't play in that space. If you want something that's buzzword-compliant then jBase might not get all the boxes checked. NoSQL is sometimes defined as being an extension of the relational model and not a replacement. And some people talk about NoSQL in terms of scaling and distributed architectures, not so much about NoSQL as a replacement for common database functionality. In other words, a NoSQL platform to some people might be a dirt-simple key/value-pair environment hosted in the cloud - and people don't care about it being a "database management system", they just want some place to store their stuff. jBase is a full DBMS with a programming language and other features that go beyond basic data storage. At the end of the day it probably doesn't matter what moniker you apply to these tools, what's important is what you need done and what tools are going to do the job for you. HTH Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog Visit http://PickWiki.com! Contribute! http://Twitter.com/TonyGravagno http://groups.google.com/group/mvdbms -- -- IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en
