NYCPHP Meetup

[Mitch Pirtle]

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Ajai Khattri <ajai at bitblit.net> wrote:
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> I know MongoDB is cool an' all, but you seem to be pushing it really hard.

Yep - but it's not an everything solution. My apologies if my
enthusiasm makes it sound that way.

Coming from the CMS space, document databases are somewhat of a silver
bullet though - they solve so many problems that have plagued the
space all along. I was on a panel with Drupal, Alfresco and Plone
yesterday in Boston, and mentioned that Plone had ZODB all these years
while the rest of us were stuck with flat, relational databases that
were an awful fit for our object languages.

With noSQL databases like MongoDB, CouchDB, hBase and many more, those
problems are replaced with new ones sure; but at least we aren't
banging our heads against the same old ones :^P

Actually, I remember when all the CMS projects seemed to be pushing
jQuery very very hard, and it creeped me out. In hindsight, it should
be clear to everyone why jQuery was "the topic" back then, as it was
so desperately needed.

I feel the same way today about being freed from relational databases.

-- Mitch