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voxcogitatio on Dec 6, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: What The Heck Are You Actually Using NoSQL For?

The confusion about the use case of NoSQL probably stems from the term "NoSQL" being so vaguely defined. All you can say for sure about one is that it's not relational. But other than that there's not much in common between (for example) key-value stores, graph databases and object databases.

Result: The author has to qualify all statements with "only applies to some NoSQL databases".

jfb on Dec 7, 2010 | [–]

I would love a relational database with some less horrible language than SQL to manage it. That'd be NoSQL, no lie, but considerably different than a KV store.

cake on Dec 6, 2010 | [–]

I thinks "NoSQL" a bad name too. With NoSQL you would expect the opposite of a db managed by SQL when in fact it's something completetly different.

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