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Re:MongoDB is to NoSQL like MySQL to SQL - in the most harmf... by chris_wot on Thursday November 14, 2013 @09:04AM (#6732292)
Why is it called a "fractal tree"?
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Re:MongoDB is to NoSQL like MySQL to SQL - in the most harmf... by leif on Thursday November 14, 2013 @10:29AM (#6732815)
Marketing. No technical reason.
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Re:MongoDB is to NoSQL like MySQL to SQL - in the most harmf... by chris_wot on Friday November 15, 2013 @05:46AM (#6738721)
From what I can tell, this has been patented, but was implemented in part by Postgres much earlier.
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Re:MongoDB is to NoSQL like MySQL to SQL - in the most harmf... by leif on Friday November 15, 2013 @06:09AM (#6738791)
I promise it hasn't, but I'm curious to see what you're talking about. Link?
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Re:MongoDB is to NoSQL like MySQL to SQL - in the most harmf... by chris_wot on Friday November 15, 2013 @05:15PM (#6742536)
See this thread: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/511BDCAB.2080803@agliod...
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Re:MongoDB is to NoSQL like MySQL to SQL - in the most harmf... by leif on Saturday November 16, 2013 @12:03PM (#6745431)
That thread is talking about the possible inclusion of our indexing library inside Postgres, and was from before we had open sourced the code. IANAL but I think it would be possible to include the fractal tree library in Postgres now if someone wanted to do it, but none of it has ever been implemented by Postgres.
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Re:MongoDB is to NoSQL like MySQL to SQL - in the most harmf... by chris_wot on Saturday November 16, 2013 @09:58PM (#6747342)
I stand corrected! Thanks for the info.
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