| From: | Joshua Tolley <eggyknap(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Florian Weimer <fw(at)deneb(dot)enyo(dot)de> |
| Cc: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Major features of 9.0? |
| Date: | 2010-02-16 23:04:24 |
| Message-ID: | 4b7b2487.9d15f10a.2aa0.3a46@mx.google.com |
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On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:02:39PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Josh Berkus:
>
> >> Isn't hstore key/value pair data, rather than schema-less.
> >
> > Well, when the "NoSQL" people talk about "schemaless", that's what they
> > mean.
>
> Some of them have got arbitrarily nested documents involving
> sequences, booleans, sequences of string/document pairs, strings, and
> floats. Positioning PostgreSQL's simple key/value support against
> that could be a PR mistake. 8-)
Yeah, I've got to agree on that point, and retract my earlier statement as
overly broad. Yes, lots of NoSQL databases are simple key-value stores, but
lots of them are significantly more than that.
--
Joshua Tolley / eggyknap
End Point Corporation
http://www.endpoint.com
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