Hans-Christian Andersen
hans.andersen at phulse.com
Thu Dec 8 03:22:39 CST 2011
Well, I think it's always worth knowing about, since it is only going to become more relevant as everything goes to the cloud, but I can't speak for you on what the cost vs benefit for you would be and whether you ever expect to work in a relevant field of software engineering that would require it. Also, one never knows where & how technology evolves even 2-3 years from now. As for myself, as a web developer/architect, it is something I have worked on already and it is very relevant to my future career to have some familiarity. Best regards, Hans-Christian Andersen On 7 Dec 2011, at 21:02, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the confirmation. Sometimes I get to feeling that I've missed > the train :) > A. > > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Hans-Christian Andersen < > hans.andersen at phulse.com> wrote: > >> >> Exactly. This was the original "raison d'être" for NoSQL databases. Now, >> things have got a bit more complicated as some of the "NoSQL" options are >> doing different things. I've seen one or two which try to be a hybrid >> between a relational database and a NoSQL database, but I don't know how >> successful they have been (not personally played with them). >> >> It's not just for web apps, however. It is also very useful in super >> computing where you deal with a lot of data (often times unstructured), a >> highly scaled environment and then hadoop is then used in conjunction for >> data analysis. And, for instance, the Large Hadron Collider is using NoSQL >> to store their data as well and Rackspace is using it for backend cloud >> storage. Those are some use cases that come to mind and there are more, but >> you may find that it has very little use in whatever project and field of >> work you are in. It's not really meant to be a natural replacement of a >> traditional RDBMS. >> >> - Hans >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > dba-SQLServer mailing list > dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver > http://www.databaseadvisors.com >