Development quotes of the week

Posted Mar 16, 2019 0:20 UTC (Sat) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Development quotes of the week by flussence
Parent article: Development quotes of the week

I noticed that Pulp (which is the open source content management component) of Red Hat Satellite simply moved on to using PostgreSQL instead of MongoDB + PostgreSQL and Red Hat has dropped MongoDB completely. No forks seem to have emerged. It may very well be that the license change would get more people to look at traditional databases which have grown support for NoSQL type features. That is probably a good thing.

Development quotes of the week

Posted Mar 23, 2019 21:41 UTC (Sat) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

Or look at the original NoSQL database - Pick. Unfortunately I'm unaware of a viable Free Software implementation.

(aiui, the NoSQL domain was registered / is owned by one of the leading lights in the Pick community. It predates the rise of NoSQL in general, and was intended to trigger exactly that.)

But to implement a Pick database, really all you need is a decent key/value datastore, and a way of handling n-dimensional data (as provided by Pick's DataBASIC language). In maths, the general always trumps the specific, and Pick's n-dimensional data store trumps relational's 2-dimensional store.

Cheers,
Wol