The Durable Document Store You Didn't Know You Had, but Did
As it turns out, PostgreSQL has a number of ways of storing loosely structured data/documents in a column on a table.
- hstore is a data type available as a contrib package that allows you to store key/value structures just like a dictionary or hash.
- You can store data in JSON format on a text field, and then use PLV8 to JSON.parse() it right in the database.
- There is a native xml data type, along with a few interesting query functions that allow you to extract and operate on data that sits deep in an XML structure.
I concur. Not knowing your database *must not* be the reason for adopting a NoSQL database.
Original title and link: The Durable Document Store You Didn’t Know You Had, but Did (©myNoSQL)
