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CodernityDB — pure Python, NoSQL, fast database

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Re: CodernityDB — pure Python, NoSQL, fast database

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post #15

The only thing that turns me off to a product more than a poor website is poor English in the documentation. If English isn't your primary language, PLEASE get someone that speaks it fluently to either write your docs, translate your docs, or edit what you've written.

They are nice to write the documentation in poor English, they could launch the product only with Polish documentation and then you would never be able to use it before someones translates it.

While this is true, it's to the detriment of their project not to have at least some English docs. It grants them the largest possible audience[1] for their project. Generating interest in their tool is one of the things that they need to do if they want it to be a successful open source project.

[1]: I guess it's possible that 'Chinese' might be close too, but I have no idea how the different dialects (Mandarin/Cantonese) would affect this.

Re: CodernityDB — pure Python, NoSQL, fast database

#23

A cursory glance through the code revealed a bug: https://bitbucket.org/codernity/codernitydb/issue/1/_rev-not...

You can learn a lot about a community, a product, and a company based on how they respond to bug reports. Promptness, formality, details and politeness are all incredible indicators about what's going on under the hood.

Re: CodernityDB — pure Python, NoSQL, fast database

#24

"CodernityDB pure python, NoSQL, fast database" Is the fact that it is written in "pure Python" really the most important thing to reenforce after the name of the product itself? Why would I use this over established products like Riak, Redis, MongoDB, etc?

Python is on almost every host out there now. Riak, Redis, and MongoDB are not, and on many hosts you won't be able to compile them from the source. So yes, that's relevant.

If you are on a host without a compiler you don't need a NOSQL db.

Re: CodernityDB — pure Python, NoSQL, fast database

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post #21
post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are nice to write the documentation in poor English, they could launch the product only with Polish documentation and then you would never be able to use it before someones translates it.

While this is true, it's to the detriment of their project not to have at least some English docs. It grants them the largest possible audience[1] for their project. Generating interest in their tool is one of the things that they need to do if they want it to be a successful open source project. [1]: I guess it's possible that 'Chinese' might be close too, but I have no idea how the different dialects (Mandarin/Cant…

> [1]: I guess it's possible that 'Chinese' might be close too, but I have no idea how the different dialects (Mandarin/Cantonese) would affect this.

Cantonese isn't written down, strictly speaking; when you write Chinese, there aren't dialectic differences.

Re: CodernityDB — pure Python, NoSQL, fast database

#26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Python is on almost every host out there now. Riak, Redis, and MongoDB are not, and on many hosts you won't be able to compile them from the source. So yes, that's relevant.

If you are on a host without a compiler you don't need a NOSQL db.

How do you figure?

Re: CodernityDB — pure Python, NoSQL, fast database

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you are on a host without a compiler you don't need a NOSQL db.

How do you figure?

I believe the insinuation is that if you're actually building a serious app that might actually benefit from NoSQL, then you should host it on a serious machine and not some shared hosting solution.

Basically conflating the idea that NoSQL is for 'real projects' and that only 'amateur hour' hosts have no compiler.

Re: CodernityDB — pure Python, NoSQL, fast database

#28
post #4

It would be helpful to add "How is this different from other NoSQL databases" to the FAQ.

It seems as though the key differentiator is 'pure python'. For python environments, this is a huge bonus, as it makes it easy to install and support with existing tools.

Re: CodernityDB — pure Python, NoSQL, fast database

#29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Python is on almost every host out there now. Riak, Redis, and MongoDB are not, and on many hosts you won't be able to compile them from the source. So yes, that's relevant.

If you are on a host without a compiler you don't need a NOSQL db.

Wouldn't you want to remove extraneous software eg. a compiler from a dedicated database host for security? (Yes, Python could be included in that as well)
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