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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 > [log in to unmask] >