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18th January 2009 - Link Blog

Rules of Database App Aging. Peter Harkins: All fields become optional, all relationships become many-to-many, chatter always expands. This is why document oriented databases such as CouchDB are looking more and more attractive.

Posted 18th January 2009 at 9:09 am

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