Tongue lodged deeply -- so deeply -- in cheek:

http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/1016320617/mongodb-is-web-scale#

NSFW if your co-workers don't like to hear computer-generated swears.

:)

Cheers,
-Nate

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Luciano Ramalho <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Bill Dueber <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Oops. I just found a better overview than I can provide, at
>> http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Comparing+Mongo+DB+and+Couch+DB
>
> I was just about to send that link.
>
>> There are lots of other players in this space, too -- see
>> http://nosql-database.org/
>
> It depends on how you define "that space". There are lots of players
> in the non-relational, AKA, NoSQL space, but in the document oriented
> space I don't know of any other current contender other than MongoDB
> and CouchDB. Do you?
>
> Comparing Riak, Cassandra and MongoDB is like comparing a golf cart, a
> fork lift and a fire engine. They are just too different.
>
> But i'd say MongoDB and CouchDB belong in the same category, though
> MongoDB is optimized for performance in cluster, deployed in a single
> datacenter, with master-slave replication, and CouchDB is designed for
> easy and reliable distributed deployment with master-master
> replication among nodes that are not always online.
>
> Their conceptual data model is very similar (JSON and BSON), so it's a
> snap to migrate data from CouchDB to MongoDB (the opposite maybe more
> complicated depending on the dataset, because BSON has more primitive
> types than JSON).
>
> Where I work [1] we are doing pilot projects with CouchDB, but we also
> envision using CouchDB as the main repository for content creation,
> and pushing data to MongoDB for high demand services, if we find out
> that CouchDB can't handle the traffic.
>
> [1] http://regional.bvsalud.org/php/index.php?lang=en
>
> --
> Luciano Ramalho
> programador repentista || stand-up programmer
> Twitter: @luciano
>