same problem for years explaining what Lotus Notes is. The odd thing is
that to a lay person it is way easier to understand the concept of a
document and a bunch of views than it is to understand tables,
relations, left inner joins, compound keys, fourth normal form etc.
Alan.
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
that's probably right. We have a similar problem with MongoDB - once
you have to start explaining the fundamental differences, the battle
is lost. They are just too different from RDBMS.
geir
On Jan 3, 2009, at 9:03 PM, Noah Slater wrote:
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 04:25:14PM -0500, Patrick Aljord wrote:
There is nothing wrong in comparing two databases, many users don't
really
care about the internals and just want to know which one is the best
for most
jobs. I personally think couchdb is good for most apps that need a
good db :)
Firstly, thanks for the write up Paul.
However, after looking at the feedback from the CouchDB book and
monitoring the
community response to CouchDB I am starting to feel that any kind of
comparison
to RDBMS is a harmful one, unless done very, very carefully.
--
Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater
