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So let's say (hypothetically, of course) that a colleague tells you he's considering a NoSQL database like MongoDB or CouchDB, to store a couple tens of millions of "documents", where a document is pretty much an article citation, abstract, and the location of full text (not the full text itself). Would your reaction be: "That's a sensible, forward-looking approach. Lots of sites are putting lots of data into these databases and they'll only get better." "This guy's on the bleeding edge. Personally, I'd hold off, but it could work." "Schedule that 2012 re-migration to Oracle or Postgres now." "Bwahahahah!!!" Or something else? (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoSQL> is a good jumping-in point.) -- Thomas Dowling [log in to unmask]