[LRUG] CouchDB vs ThruDB

[Stephen Bartholomew]

I've played around with CouchDB a bit with DataMapper and Merb: http://github.com/stevebartholomew/merb-dm-couchdb-sample/tree/master

The actual integration was very straight-forward with DataMapper - the  
fact that you define the schema in ruby in the model classes means  
it's much better suited to a schema-less environment.

I've not had experience of ThruDB, but the whole document-orientated  
movement is defiantly an interesting one.  CouchDB works over http and  
reportedly has great replication - making scaling easy.  Built-in  
versioning is great and not having to use migrations or worry too much  
about a schema is a strangely liberating feeling....

Anyway, I've only played around with it for a bit but I hope that helps,

Steve





On 20 Dec 2008, at 17:45, George Palmer wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm doing some research for an upcoming project where a document  
> orientated database fits the bill perfectly.  I've no experience of  
> using these so have shortlisted down to two contenders - CouchDB and  
> ThruDB(http://code.google.com/p/thrudb).  Has anybody got any good/ 
> bad reports on either of these?  I'd also be interested to hear any  
> reports on how well they integrate into rails or merb.
>
> Cheers,
>
> George
> --
> George Palmer
> rowtheboat.com
> _______________________________________________
> Chat mailing list
> Chat at lists.lrug.org
> http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.lrug.org/pipermail/chat-lrug.org/attachments/20081220/fd5bbd2e/attachment-0003.html>