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Re:Schema-less is usually a lie by tokenizerrr on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @05:18PM (#5987585)
I recall reading about how MongoDB saves all the key names with each record, since there is no schema. This results in quite a lot of disk space going to waste. It seems like this could be a solution to that problem as well, I like it.
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Re:Schema-less is usually a lie by jasonmccay on Thursday July 04, 2013 @02:10AM (#5989379)
The guys at Tokutek are solving that problem with MongoDB. Pretty interesting stuff ... you should check it out.
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