On 16/09/10 13:22, Tom Lane wrote:
> Hitoshi Harada<umi.tanuki@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 2010/9/16 Robert Haas<robertmhaas@gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Oh, key-value store, I bet. Yeah, that would be cool.
>>>
>
>> That's it. Like Redis, Tokyo Cabinet, or something.
>>
> What exactly do those get you that an ordinary index, or at worst an
> index-organized table, doesn't get you?
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>
It is pretty rare to see key value stores vs relational engines
discussed without a descent into total foolishiness, but this Wikipedia
page looks like a reasonable summary:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoSQL