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Re:Now that people are considering NOSQL will more people co... by alexro on Wednesday August 31, 2011 @12:27PM (#2946260)
You can have a design where your previous version of a record gets automatically copied into another table along with the timestamp of the operation. Then you can slice this history however you want. All with no additional app code.

But I wouldn't write off the noDB approach for various transitional data, or data that isn't mean to live long anyway, like tweets.

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Re:Now that people are considering NOSQL will more people co... by enjo on Wednesday August 31, 2011 @07:09PM (#2947984)
Why would the lifetime of the data be at all relevant? Most noDB (a term I don't like much) stores are built to be highly durable.

There are a lot of questions that make the choice of data store a difficult one, but I'm not sure that plays into it at all.

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