NoSQL For The Rest Of Us
(From CodeBetter.com) NoSQL For The Rest Of Us : " No one would blame you for strictly associating NoSQL with performance. Most of the back and forth about NoSQL - an umbrella term given for non-relational storage mechanisms - has squarely put the focus on performance, sites with massive traffic, and server farms. It’s an interesting conversation, but one that risks alienating NoSQL from the majority of developers. The Problem Does NoSQL provide us simple developers with any tangible benefit? As a matter of fact, it can - one as significant for us as performance is for facebook. First though you need to understand that all of those tools you've been using to access your data, such as DataSets, Linq2Sql, Hibernate, NHibernate, EntityFramework, ActiveRecord, SubSonic SQLAlchemy, are meant to help you deal with the well-known object-relational impedance mismatch . The short description is that data stored in code (typically using an Object Oriented approach) and data stored in