NoSql Databases – Part 1 - Landscape

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This is a good start, although I spotted a few things that aren't quite correct from what little I know about Redis: it is a key value store, but the values can be of complex types, which makes it a bit more interesting (he does mention this in the notes). Also, antirez has done the VM mode to make it so that you can use the disk.

I'd like to see more articles like this, though, to get a better grasp of which of these things are good for what.

Ya, this fails my sniff test on MongoDB and CouchDB as well, the two I know a bit about. Which calls the whole article into question.. nothing worse than these type of articles when the author doesn't actually have the knowledge to provide an accurate summary.

What's incorrect?

It's certainly not easy to write an article like this, because none of these things ever quite seems to fit in a well-defined category: they all overlap a bit and do things in different ways. And as his list shows, there are quite a few of them.

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