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		logicalmind on Sept 30, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The dark side of NoSQL The difference being that if you want to answer a question like "what hour of the day is my store busiest?" you would have to write a MapReduce function in Erlang for couchdb. Where alternatively, anyone with minimal knowledge can figure out that query in SQL.

tumult on Sept 30, 2009 [–]

You mean, they would have to write a simple JavaScript function. No Erlang involved in writing CouchDB views.

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