CouchDB and SQlite merging technologies to create a JSON QL

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13 points·clutchski··5 comments

Seems to me they could just take XPath and XQuery and rebrand it as JPath/JQuery.

Well, the JQuery name is already taken. Also it seems that the JPath idea isn't too crazy that someone didn't already do it:

http://www.s-anand.net/blog/jpath-xpath-for-javascript/

A shot across the bow of 10gen?

I doubt it will be disruptive to 10gen at all. I think it's more of an attempt to answer some of the criticism of key value stores as a db replacement: how do you query them in a portable way?

Does anyone have a guess as to what CouchDB and what SQLite technologies he is referring to?

I don't understand this perspective... I was confused at first, but I read about the first third of the couchDB book and then got it, and now I am excited that a "distributed map reduce system in erlang" (or javascript) is a much better solution- essentially my query results are pre-computed by mapreduce and this should make performance much better.

This is a lot easier than trying to figure out how to make SQL queries that will be performant or optimizing them later... in a previous startup we lost about 18 months solving this very problem. In fact, I see map reduce as a competitive advantage.

Maybe I'm a fool... I hope not.

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