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[nycphp-talk] Returning DB results as XML or JSON?

Ajai Khattri ajai at bitblit.net
Thu Dec 3 18:20:34 EST 2009


On Thu, 3 Dec 2009, Mitch Pirtle wrote:

> Just wanted to add in there that you could use MongoDB instead of
> MySQL, which gives you additional opportunities to do stuff like real
> time analytics and live in a SQL-free world.
> 
> Documents are stored in a binary JSON format, so there's no conversion
> needed. You could almost look at your PHP scripts as a simple REST
> interface to MongoDB, which would scale very gracefully and be very
> quick to prototype.

I know MongoDB is cool an' all, but you seem to be pushing it really hard.



-- 
Aj.




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