"Eric G. Miller" wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 04:52:10PM -0700, Xeno Campanoli wrote: > > I asked this before, and the only answer I got was some obscure crack in > > German. > > > > Is NOSQL still a useful thing, and/or is anyone using it? If so, what > > kinds of projects is it used for? > > As a database management system, it has some shortcomings (performance, > type checking, blah, blah, blah feature). I suppose someone must've > found it useful (the author, the Debian packager). Much of the > functionality can be had with "cut", "paste", "join", "sort", and > "uniq". When I looked at it, it didn't seem to provide alot of added > value over textutils... The biggest benefit was all data was stored in > plain text files (portability).
So it doesn't sound like anyone's actually used it for real work; at least not recently? > > -- > Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net> > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physically I'm at: 5101 N. 45th St., Tacoma, WA, 98407-3717, U.S.A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
