Couch stores data as Json. Its query capabilities are based on json pair names.
I'm just trying it out but I believe that, for example, if a User object was a blob, you couldn't issue a query like "fetch user with username = 'foo'". You would have to read all the users into Smalltalk and do a select: Anyway that's my impression of how Couch works. On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck < [email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Davorin Rusevljan < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > Does it need to be JSON? >> >> Since CouchDB stores data in json - I guess the answer is very likely >> yes, since just storing serialized blobs inside CouchDB would loose >> all querying and indexing available. > > > I don't understand. What is the difference from the querying and indexing > point of view between serializing with JSON or a binary > serializer.<http://www.cloud208.com/> > > -- > Mariano > http://marianopeck.wordpress.com > >
