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What's the attraction of schemaless database systems?

I've been hearing a lot of talk about schema-less (often distributed) database systems like MongoDB, CouchDB, SimpleDB, etc... While I can understand they might be valuable for some purposes, in most of my applications I'm trying to persist objects…
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Are document-oriented databases meant to replace relational databases?

Recently I've been working a little with MongoDB and I have to say I really like it. However it is a completely different type of database then I am used. I've noticed that it is most definitely better for certain types of data, however for…
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Many-to-many relationship with NoSQL database

I want to implement a taxonomy structure (geo terms) for my node.js application with NoSQL database. I had a similar taxonomy structure with MySQL but it's time to move forward and learn something new so I decided to try a different approach and use…
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How to stop thinking "relationally"

At work, we recently started a project using CouchDB (a document-oriented database). I've been having a hard time un-learning all of my relational db knowledge. I was wondering how some of you overcame this obstacle? How did you stop thinking…
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Relations in Document-oriented database?

I'm interested in document-oriented databases, and I'd like to play with MongoDB. So I started a fairly simple project (an issue tracker), but am having hard times thinking in a non-relational way. My problems: I have two objects that relate to…
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Is it possible to store multiple types of Objects into 1 mongodb collection?

using document oriënted database mongodb and the Object Document Mapper (ODM) morphia Lets say we have 3 different classes; Object, Category and Action. These object are all stored in the collections; objects, categories and actions. Category and…
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Anyone using RavenDB in a production environment?

I'm doing research on the maturity of some document-oriented stores, which includes an overview of applications and websites that use the database in production environments. There are several lists and case studies available for CouchDB and…
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Mongo DB relations between objects

I'm trying to implement blog post storage using mongo db. I've got two domain entities: "Blog post" and "Author" Currently I've added AuthorId property to blog post entity. Is that the right approach to store relation between objects?
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Relational vs Columnar and Document Databases - aren't they one in the same?

I understand that document-oriented NoSQL DBs are "extensions" of the KV model in that they allow you to query more than just a single lookup key. But once something is a "document", I feel like it already has a relational model baked into…
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PyMongo and toArray() method

I need to make some benchmarks on a small database (64MB) and I need to figure out what is the smartest way to fetch whole Mongo collection into python object with PyMongo? In JavaScript, there is toArray() method but I cannot find anything similar…
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Is it possible to use RDF storage also as a document-oriented database?

Suppose I have a large ammount of heterogeneous JSON documents (i.e. named key-value mappings) and a hierarchy of classes (i.e. named sets) that these documents are attached to. I need to set up a data structure that will allow: CRUD operations on…
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Couchbase cbdocloader errors

I am trying to add multiple JSON documents to my couchbase server from a zip file (each JSON document is in it's own file and the file is named after the id.json) using the cbdocloader tool. Using the following command syntax ./cbdocloader -n…
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Are there any Design Guidelines for Documental Databases?

Just wondering if there are any kind of guidelines for when you are designing a document-oriented db and I am talking especially about CouchDb. I know that being schemaless things can take the shape that we want but, are there any best…
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Document-oriented database - What if the document definitions change?

As I understand it, you can enter any non-structured information into a document-oriented database. Let's imagine a document like this: { name: 'John Blank', yearOfBirth: 1960 } Later, in a new version, this structure is refactored to { …
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Embedded analog of CouchDB, same as sqlite for SQL Server

I like an idea of document oriented databases like CouchDB. I am looking for simple analog. My requirements is just: persistance storage for schema less data; some simple in-proc quering; good to have transactions and versioning; ruby…
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