The hospital was already using Cache - the kiosk hooks, via Node, straight into their existing Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR) which is based on Cache without any other intermediate layers or technologies.
Cache (and GT.M) is the predominant database technology in use in healthcare worldwide and is essentially a NoSQL database that pre- dates NoSQL (it's been around for 30 years or more). So in that respect there would be absolutely no advantage in using an alternative modern NoSQL database such as Mongo - it honestly would provide no benefit that isn't already there in Cache (or GT.M). The cool thing is that we can hook straight into the existing functionality of these Cache-based healthcare applications and project it into new modern UIs and make use of all the goodness of Node. You may be interested in this paper that I and a colleague wrote a year or so ago that may help to provide some more background context: http://www.mgateway.com/docs/universalNoSQL.pdf Rob On Feb 2, 4:22 pm, Matt <[email protected]> wrote: > Can you share anything about your choice of Caché rather than one of the > more popular Node databases like Mongo? > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Chris Casey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > After a few months work my new hospital self-service kiosks went live at > > Calderdale and Huddersfield hospitals. > > >http://www.cht.nhs.uk/news/news-item/article/new-electronic-check-in-...<http://www.cht.nhs.uk/news/news-item/article/new-electronic-check-in-...[backPid]=13&cHash=f98cc2560c28ec9de633f805879baada> > > > Hope I have done link correctly above. Not done that before. > > > These self check-in kiosks have the following technology stack... > > > Safari browser running full screen. > > Sencha touch for the UI > > EWD development framework > > Node.js > > EWDGateway node module > > Telnet as the node clients > > Cache Database for the data and application code > > > The EWD and node bits were put together by Rob Tweed of MGateway ( > >www.github.com/robtweed/ewdGateway). > > > Not sure what else might be of interest to readers here but happy to > > answer any questions. > > > Chris (@ChrisPCasey) > > > -- > > Job Board:http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > > Posting guidelines: > >https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "nodejs" 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/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" 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/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
