Re: SQL Databases Are An Overapplied Solution (And What To Use Instead)

lobo_tuerto — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:13:02 -0000

Hey Adam,

Sorry if this is a truly newbie question, I'm trying to wrap my head around something like CouchDB.

Let's take a concrete example, invoices and line items. An invoice can have many line items in it.

With a "normal" SQL DB, you would have two tables, say: Invoices, LineItems. And we all know how that works.
With a "document oriented" DB you would have Invoice docs, those docs, would directly contain the line items in them, right?

Is it possible (and/or easy) to do a query to get a report on the best selling line items? how do you work that on CouchDB? since they are all contained within Invoice documents... in a SQL DB you would only run a query on the LineItems table.

Does this question make sense? :)

Re: Building a Space Strategy Game with Ruby on Rails - Part I

lobo_tuerto — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 03:11:35 -0000

Hi, great article! I'm looking forward to learn about how are you going to implement the automated tick process. cron job maybe?

I didn't know you had another side covering the same articles :)
http://www.mnkyx.com/dev/

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