When NoSQL is the new hot spot, few people are willing to admit that they are using relational databases, which makes it difficult to find good articles on the subject. How to implement a schemaless (or “document-oriented”) database on top of a relational database?
Reading by Bret Taylor (Co-founder of FriendFeed, current CTO of Facebook) After the shocking article written by How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data, I began to doubt the use of RDBMS such as Oracle, MySQL or PostgreSQL Best practices for storing and querying data?
When NoSQL is the new hot spot, few people are willing to admit that they are using relational databases, which makes it difficult to find good articles on the subject. How to implement a schemaless (or “document-oriented”) database on top of a relational database?
This is a classic article on this topic: http://yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.com/2010/10/using-mysql-as-nosql-story- for.html (using MySQL as NoSQL-the story of more than 750,000 qps on the commodity server)