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From: Antony Blakey <antony.blakey@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Erlang vs Scala
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 11:37:18 +0930
References: <20090408080746.GA7710@uk.tiscali.com>
 <D502E63A-1006-4337-8AE6-5656BFC72FF7@gmail.com> <grjktp$re1$1@ger.gmane.org>

Architecting a solution to use both XML and JSON (or any other type)  
is easy if you a) store canonical data in uninterpreted binary form  
and b) allow plugable data-type dependent indexing.

I think CouchDB has shown the way to a more generalized solution in  
this space.

On 09/04/2009, at 11:31 AM, Daniel Friesen wrote:

> CouchDB as an XML database? Bah...
> If you're going xml why use Couch? XML already has XQuery  
> standardized and there are a number of XML database implementations  
> already in existence.
> At work I'm using Sedna since we just couldn't handle our  
> hierarchical structure inside of CouchDB.
>
> ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire)
>
> Wout Mertens wrote:
>> On Apr 8, 2009, at 10:07 AM, Brian Candler wrote:
>>
>>>> So I began to wonder if it wouldn't be better for CouchDB to be
>>>> written in Scala.
>>>
>>> Next you will be saying that it would be better for CouchDB to use  
>>> XML
>>> instead of JSON :-)
>>
>> Oh wow that'd be awesome! ;-)
>>
>> Wout.
>

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