From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2008-09-15T11:09:05+09:00
Subject: Re: A new database access framework for any Ruby (Iron or J)

On Sunday 14 September 2008 18:09:46 Todd Benson wrote:

> Umm, yeah.  CouchDB is 'beyond' an SQL database.  Well, if the shoe
> fits (use it).  I still don't understand why, for some people,
> _everything_ has to be dynamic.

Well, in the same sense that Ruby would be "beyond" C. Not that there's no use 
case for C at all, but in almost all cases, I'd rather use Ruby, and the 
dynamism is part of that.

> On the CouchDB site, quote, "Ad-hoc 
> and schema-free with a flat address space."  That's what should run an
> enterprise?  Be it on your own head.

My own head? Sure.

And why shouldn't that run an enterprise? Some enterprises, in fact, run on 
exactly that kind of database -- Google's BigTable, for example, isn't far 
off. In practice, it's a superset of the functionality and scalability of a 
modern SQL database, only less statically typed and probably slower on a 
single machine.

Again: There are cases where it matters that SQL is faster on a single 
machine. I just think that most of the cases where SQL is used today don't 
fit that at all.