Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 86968 invoked from network); 9 Feb 2009 16:09:10 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.2) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 9 Feb 2009 16:09:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 63660 invoked by uid 500); 9 Feb 2009 16:09:09 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 63241 invoked by uid 500); 9 Feb 2009 16:09:08 -0000 Mailing-List: contact user-help@couchdb.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: user@couchdb.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list user@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 63218 invoked by uid 99); 9 Feb 2009 16:09:08 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:09:08 -0800 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.2 required=10.0 tests=SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (athena.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [83.97.50.139] (HELO jan.prima.de) (83.97.50.139) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:08:59 +0000 Received: from dahlia.lan (f053003027.adsl.alicedsl.de [::ffff:78.53.3.27]) (AUTH: LOGIN jan, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,128bits,AES128-SHA) by jan.prima.de with esmtp; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:08:37 +0000 Message-Id: <0A2B56E7-46BE-408A-9819-81CB4EBFE5A3@apache.org> From: Jan Lehnardt To: user@couchdb.apache.org In-Reply-To: <6a8c90ba0902090755i575bc907qcc35b62e4d7c80b1@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Subject: Re: [user] Re: The Blog Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 17:08:05 +0100 References: <5186956f0902082052m43546a8dmb6d9a3ebf9685034@mail.gmail.com> <5186956f0902090228p5a6db266l764fde4c82b571d0@mail.gmail.com> <5186956f0902090338i2829df1erebaa24a4feea7e06@mail.gmail.com> <5186956f0902090449s76befd76g4cf9ded9f59efc86@mail.gmail.com> <5186956f0902090627y1239b12es505ee80b2d6bd248@mail.gmail.com> <6a8c90ba0902090651q258bb335uf6142ccb25261931@mail.gmail.com> <20090209145701.GR21180@tumbolia.org> <2B705A9C-441C-487C-95E7-B537682F49A7@cisco.com> <20090209152738.GS21180@tumbolia.org> <6a8c90ba0902090755i575bc907qcc35b62e4d7c80b1@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org On 9 Feb 2009, at 16:55, Adam Petty wrote: > -- as for an example db issue... > For some reason - without transactions the RDBMS people at my work > seem to > not want to consider couch for anything having to do with money. Somebody should tell them that banks have since moved to eventually consistent data storage for most but the most heavyweight (money-)transactions. Cheers Jan -- > > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Noah Slater > wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 04:18:09PM +0100, Wout Mertens wrote: >>> To be honest, I think saying RDBMS and CouchDB are for different >>> solutions is just you guys being nice. I think that any application >>> would benefit from using the CouchDB model and only in very >>> specific, >>> very demanding cases an RDBMS would be better. I can't think of any >>> examples though. >> >> Not really, I just like avoiding the flames. Heh heh. >> >> I see where you want to go with this, and I agree that some >> applications >> are >> better suited to CouchDB, but I think it's often a blurry line, and >> you >> will >> draw fire from the RDBMS people for anything too concrete. >> >> -- >> Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater >>