On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:02:39PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Josh Berkus:
>
> >> Isn't hstore key/value pair data, rather than schema-less.
> >
> > Well, when the "NoSQL" people talk about "schemaless", that's what they
> > mean.
>
> Some of them have got arbitrarily nested documents involving
> sequences, booleans, sequences of string/document pairs, strings, and
> floats. Positioning PostgreSQL's simple key/value support against
> that could be a PR mistake. 8-)
Yeah, I've got to agree on that point, and retract my earlier statement as
overly broad. Yes, lots of NoSQL databases are simple key-value stores, but
lots of them are significantly more than that.
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Joshua Tolley / eggyknap
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