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NoSQL, CouchDB vs. CouchBase, What should i do?
I started to encounter some issues on my production site, when having a web page that needs to load a very big ResultSet (currently coming from relational database, MySQL) it takes forever, and ...
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How do databases store index key values (on-disk) for variable length fields?
Context
This question pertains to the low-level implementation details of indexes in both SQL and NoSQL database systems. Actual structure of the index (B+ tree, hash, SSTable, etc.) is irrelevant as ...
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How to handle “reference tables” in CouchDB?
What's the best way to handle "reference tables", tables that contain static data, for example a list with various kinds of ingredients for food?
Multiple documents, one for each ingredient
One ...
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Document Design and Document IDs
I was wondering about specifying id's in CouchDB. For example:
House
- Rooms
-- Kitchen
-- Living room
-- ...
- Windows
- Doors
There are some documents, like "House", where there is and will only ...
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What does horizontal scaling mean?
In database context, I have come across horizontal scalability as one of the advantages of the NOSQL databases. What does the term mean?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CouchDB
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CouchDB vs MongoDB [closed]
Evaluating document-oriented storage, what are the pros and cons of CouchDB vs MongoDB?
