From: Mike Stephens <rubfor@...>
Date: 2009-05-18T17:41:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Berkeley DB or Store equivalent?

Mk 27 wrote:
> Here's a related question: Is is normal to just use sets of 2D tables 
> with SQL?  

A relational database tends to be organised around relations which are 
essentially two dimensional matrices. SQL is also a first order 
predicate language which limits what operations you can carry out.

That said, you're not really using it in the information management 
sense, so there's nothing to stop you storing blobs of any old structure 
you like. That works fine as long as you are just using the database as 
a sophisticated, scalable filestore, which is probably what you often 
are in a Rails context.

(Incidentally why did you choose a Ruby forum rather than a Rails 
forum?)

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