The world now has ghetto Hive!  Just what CouchDB needed..

Enter an idea: what if I could marry the ease of SQL to the flexibility of CouchDB? Actually, it was more like: what's the most amusing thing I could build after a day like today?

I'm a big fan of perl: there's nothing perl can't do, and with a wonderful repository like CPAN throwing together a script that would make the devil himself shiver becomes an easy task. Sure, perl can be so messy and complex that it can't even be parsed, but like any language, under the right circumstances it can really shine.

An hour later, I had the beginnings of a masterpiece, a bridge between the worlds of SQL and NoSQL. It was the worst abuse of technology that I could think of: a SQL front-end to CouchDB.

via NoSQL meet SQL.

But seriously, its a neat script.

Tags: CouchDB,Database,Hive,NoSQL,Perl,SQL
Categories: Technology
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