December 2009
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"Partial Object Updates" will be an Important...
It’s nice that in SQL we can do things like
UPDATE PERSONS SET X = X + 1
We term this a “partial object update”: we updated the value of X without sending a full row update to the server.
Seems like a very simple thing to be discussing, yet some nosql solutions do not support this (others do).
In these new datastores, the average stored object size (whether it be a document,...
NoSQL and the future of cloud databases
news.cnet.com — One of the cloud-related trends that developers have been paying attention to is “NoSQL,” a set of operational-data technologies based on nonrelational technology. According to Dwight Merriman, CEO of 10gen (the commercial team behind the open-source MongoDB project), we’ll see NoSQL complement existing applications for the...