[Info-vax] C99 updates to CRTL

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Wed Jul 31 22:03:52 EDT 2019


On 7/31/2019 8:35 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2019-08-01 00:29:04 +0000, Simon Clubley said:
> 
>> How well do the current crop of NoSQL databases handle resizing fields 
>> in a record and adding fields to a record without having to rebuild 
>> programs or having to make source code changes to allow programs to 
>> continue using the existing data ?
> 
> Donno about NoSQL off-hand, but SQLite and other SQL environments handle 
> that with aplomb.  Which is one of the reasons I've been using SQLite as 
> a data store.

Relational databases is another matter.

And I would in almost all cases (except when data sizes are extreme)
suggest using a relational database.

But the low level NoSQL approach is actually pretty hot today.

Arne



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