The advantage of the NoSQL DBs is that they're schema-less which
allows much more flexibility in your data going in.
However, it sounds like your schema may be pretty standardized -- I'm
not sure of a huge advantage (outside the aforementioned replication
functionality) you'd get.
-Ross.
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Thomas Dowling <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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
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