Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Wed Dec 7 14:30:42 CST 2011
I haven't actually tried any, but from everything I've read about them, that's my take on them too. They are very useful for quick retrieval of data atoms from huge datasets but don't do hierarchical structures well. I guess it would be good for a document storage/retreival system with full text indexing -- Stuart On 7 Dec 2011 at 11:46, Arthur Fuller wrote: > I have downloaded and installed a couple of these but not yet discovered > any practical (from my POV) applications of this. From what I can gather > from the ReadMes etc., they are basically a key-value collection, which it > would seem is designed for web-apps whose principal task is to rapidly and > scalably retrieve values from the db. It's not readily apparent how this > might be applied to a relational database (say, Customers, Orders, > OrderDetails and Products). > > Does anyone have any insight into actual use of these technologies? > > -- > Cell: 647.710.1314 > > Thirty spokes converge on a hub > but it's the emptiness > that makes a wheel work > -- from the Daodejing > _______________________________________________ > dba-SQLServer mailing list > dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver > http://www.databaseadvisors.com > >