well said alan, it is way each to explian and understand document and associated views
On 1/4/09, Alan Bell <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >>> >> >> >
