On Jan 3, 2009, at 9:03 PM, Noah Slater wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 04:25:14PM -0500, Patrick Aljord wrote:
>> There is nothing wrong in comparing two databases, many users don't
>> really
>> care about the internals and just want to know which one is the
>> best for most
>> jobs. I personally think couchdb is good for most apps that need a
>> good db :)
>
> Firstly, thanks for the write up Paul.
>
> However, after looking at the feedback from the CouchDB book and
> monitoring the
> community response to CouchDB I am starting to feel that any kind of
> comparison
> to RDBMS is a harmful one, unless done very, very carefully.
any why X is better than Y is almost always counter productive unless
its very well reasoned
and in depth- if you don't go for a persuasive argument, all you have
is a flame war waiting to happen.
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