Comments on: CouchDB — lazy database design taken to excess? http://www.dbms2.com/2008/02/01/couchdb/ Choices in data management and analysis Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:22:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Norbert Klamann http://www.dbms2.com/2008/02/01/couchdb/#comment-73715 Norbert Klamann Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:57:59 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/2008/02/01/couchdb/#comment-73715 If I understand it correctly then Damiens Point against XML is XMLs verbosity and general clumsyness (?). This is an argument which I second. If I understand it correctly then Damiens Point against XML is XMLs verbosity and general clumsyness (?). This is an argument which I second.

]]> By: Curt Monash http://www.dbms2.com/2008/02/01/couchdb/#comment-70407 Curt Monash Sat, 02 Feb 2008 07:23:26 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/2008/02/01/couchdb/#comment-70407 Oh. He doesn't like forcing people to walk hierarchies. Well, he does have a point there. Thanks, CAM Oh. He doesn’t like forcing people to walk hierarchies.

Well, he does have a point there.

Thanks,

CAM

]]> By: Daniel Lemire http://www.dbms2.com/2008/02/01/couchdb/#comment-70388 Daniel Lemire Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:07:14 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/2008/02/01/couchdb/#comment-70388 Keep in mind that XQuery does not require a schema to work. So XML databases work just fine without schemas. In this respect, CloudDB is not any different than an XML database. He likes name-value pairs too. In fact, that is pretty much the main thing he relies upon!!! He just thinks that XQuery/XML is too complicated because the data can then be quite messy. He prefers simple name-value pairs which get tied to a document without any hierarchies. Keep in mind that XQuery does not require a schema to work. So XML databases work just fine without schemas. In this respect, CloudDB is not any different than an XML database.

He likes name-value pairs too. In fact, that is pretty much the main thing he relies upon!!! He just thinks that XQuery/XML is too complicated because the data can then be quite messy. He prefers simple name-value pairs which get tied to a document without any hierarchies.

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