Answer by Ecaterina Vidrascu for Why should I use document based database...
Document based databases have a big advantage over relational databases as they do not require defining a schema upfront- before being able to enter any data. Also, you should use a document database...
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To elaborate on smdelfin: flexibility. You can store data in any structure (being unstructured and all) and every document could be completely different. CouchDB specifically is useful because with...
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Use a document-based database when you do not need to store data in tables with uniform sized fields for each record. Instead, you have a need to store each record as a document that has certain...
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For stupidly storing and serving other-servers-data. In the last couple of weeks I've been playing with a lifestream app that polls my feeds (delicious, flickr, github, twitter...) and stores them in...
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Rapid application development comes to mind.When I am constantly evolving my schema, I am constantly frustrated by having to maintain the schema in MySQL/SQLite. While I've not done too much with...
View ArticleAnswer by max for Why should I use document based database instead of...
Probably you shouldn't :-)The second most obvious answer is you should use it if your data isn't relational. This usually manifests itself in having no easy way to describe your data as a set of...
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CouchDB (from their website)A document database server, accessible via a RESTful JSON API. Generally, relational databases aren't simply accessed via REST services, but require a much more complex SQL...
View ArticleWhy should I use document based database instead of relational database?
Why should I use document based database like CouchDB instead of using relational database.Are there any typical kinds of applications or domains where the document based database is more suitable than...
View ArticleAnswer by Paulo Merson for Why should I use document based database instead...
One reason is to provide fast full-text search on JSON (or other self-describing format) documents that do not necessarily have the same structure/schema.
View ArticleAnswer by Anthony Rutledge for Why should I use document based database...
It depends.Yes, it is a use case thing. Yes, it is also a developer experience thing. Yes, the nature of the data to be input matters (highly predictable, orthogonal, rational, and easy to normalize,...
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