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When would someone use MongoDB (or similar) over traditional RDMS?
Im a bit confused......the whole NoSQL and such.
When would you choose to use something like MongoDB over something like Oracle or MYSQL?
I dont really understand....the "difference" as far as usage ...
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Weaknesses with different types of NoSQL databases
Here's my question: What are the weaknesses with different types of NoSQL databases? Specifically, what're the weaknesses of key-value stores, graph data stores and document stores?
I've had an easy ...
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Writing Web “server less” applications
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What are the prospects of writing applications which are completely based on a REST database server (CouchDB) and web applications which directly access the DB instead of having a web server in ...
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Why is NoSQL better for this scenario?
Hypothetical scenario: Let's say we are downloading JSON from Facebook with details of a user's friend's checkins, posts, etc... These come in as one document per friend per activity, so with 8 ...
