On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Andrew Welch <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Same story on the backend, when it comes to query flexible documents, > XQuery > > has answered a lot of questions that the NoSQL community is only > starting to > > discover and yet it seems that there is a cultural gap between the two > > communities. > > Interesting - what are problems the NoSQL community is discovering > that XQuery solves? > > (I've got zero nosql knowledge) > As far as I know, things like how do you joining documents efficiently or windowing queries. Navigating into deeply nested data. String collations, math functions, the whole date time data model. JSON document stores have been designed for scaling out and the processing capabilities are extremely poor. They try to catch up (at least that's what I'm seeing in some products). I feel that the XQuery expertise should be reused in this space. This is one of the goals of the JSONiq project. William > > > -- > Andrew Welch > http://andrewjwelch.com >
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