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		anamax on Aug 31, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pomegranate: storing billions and billions of tiny... Any reason to prefer NoSql to full relational? If not, what's the difference between your request and WinFS aka longhorn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS .

arethuza on Aug 31, 2010 [–]

Not really - just that I'm in the middle of doing something with CouchDB on the server side and my own lightweight MapReduce engine sitting on top of the in-browser SQLite database in Safari (for the iPhone/iPad). So everything looks document oriented to me at the moment!

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