Re: NOSQL

[Xeno Campanoli <xeno@eskimo.com>]

"Eric G. Miller" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 04:52:10PM -0700, Xeno Campanoli wrote:
> > I asked this before, and the only answer I got was some obscure crack in
> > German.
> >
> > Is NOSQL still a useful thing, and/or is anyone using it?  If so, what
> > kinds of projects is it used for?
> 
> As a database management system, it has some shortcomings (performance,
> type checking, blah, blah, blah feature).  I suppose someone must've
> found it useful (the author, the Debian packager).  Much of the
> functionality can be had with "cut", "paste", "join", "sort", and
> "uniq".  When I looked at it, it didn't seem to provide alot of added
> value over textutils... The biggest benefit was all data was stored in
> plain text files (portability).

So it doesn't sound like anyone's actually used it for real work; at
least not recently?

> 
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