On 9 Feb 2009, at 16:18, Wout Mertens wrote:
On Feb 9, 2009, at 3:57 PM, Noah Slater wrote:
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 09:51:18AM -0500, Adam Petty wrote:
Could this thread be added to the wiki - with only minor editing
for length
- maybe as "a RDBMS vs couch 'Discussion' ?" or something
similar?"...
We've learnt from the book that such comparisons tend to be harmful.
They lead people into thinking that there is a direct meaningful
comparison.
Fundamentally, CouchDB and RDMS solve different problems.
I dunno, I think it would be interesting to compare the main
benefits of each so that you know what the strong points of each are.
Quoting myself from a few mails ago:
CouchDB solves the[sic] similar problems as an RDBMS, but starting
from a different angle (distributed operation instead of single-node
operation, CAP, yadda yadda).
The differences as a consequence of different CAP-feature priorization
would be interesting, but then, I had hoped that the "Eventual
Consistency"*
chapter had done that.
* http://books.couchdb.org/relax/eventual-consistency
Cheers
Jan
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