Comment Re:What is document storage? (Score 1) 96
What is the point of document storage in a noSQL database? If you're not going to store docs in a RDBMS, why not just store them in a filesystem? What is the point of Mongo or whatever this stuff is?
They are JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) documents and you can query into fields of the object-document without the database having to read the whole "document" in the same way you can read rows based on some set of columns in an RDBMS. Given objects like { a = { b,c } } or just d = f you could read a.b where = c or just d where = f. It's multidimensional as opposed to the flat column format of an RDBMS. Unfortunately, their are no data types, constraints, foreign keys or triggers. Data integrity has to be done in programatically