[Catalyst] KiokuDB, MongoDB and the NoSQL thing

[Darren Duncan]

Here's something timely on Ars, in that I just discovered it now around the time 
of this discussion thread:

http://arstechnica.com/business/data-centers/2010/02/-since-the-rise-of.ars

It lays out a summary of how the SQL and NoSQL worlds compare, and what sort of 
trade-offs you get for each choice, and it introduces several specific NoSQL 
projects.  I also learned something, such that what CouchDB and MongoDB 
specifically represent data with is JSON documents.

So basically, what you pick out of today's choices depends on your priorities.

-- Darren Duncan

S.A. Kiehn wrote:
> I have a couple of production Catalyst/DBIx::Class sites on Debian 
> stable, and then on my personal hobby site I use local::lib to try out 
> new things.  Recently I split out my users for this site into a separate 
> model and I thought it a good exercise to learn and use KiokuDB.  It was 
> just a couple of simple objects, users & roles, but I believe I have a 
> better understanding of how a schema-less data model would work.  All I 
> do are lookups based on ID or indexed object values, but doing any type 
> of ordering by dates or titles is a mystery.  It seems that the 
> Search::GIN is to provide this sort of functionality, but it is 
> under-documented and has not had an update for awhile.
> 
> I do not see many posts regarding uses of KiokuDB within Catalyst so I 
> was curious about the opinion of the community in regards to its usage.  
> Is it still to early within development?
> 
> Also, I have been reading more about the increase in the NoSQL interest, 
> with a particular interest in the MongoDB database (it seems to be 
> similar in some respects to KiokuDB), but I do not find Perl people in 
> the discussion as much as others (Ruby, PHP).  Are there developers in 
> the Catalyst community who lean toward NoSQL concepts over traditional 
> RDMS's, or is best to view as a tool to use at times?
> 
> How about MongoDB?  Am I being suckered by another bandwagon?
> 
> Thanks, Scott K.