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I have been having a lot of fun getting to know RavenDB. It started off with my first wanting to have a quick way to model some data for a prototype I was building at work but has blossomed into a core piece of a forthcoming t3rse application (to be announced!).
Ayende posted a few days ago on the process of embracing RavenDB and something he said really struck me:
In 1980, a 10 MB hard disk (that is in megabytes, about 2 songs or 3 pictures) cost around 4,000 $ US. Adjusting for inflation, that comes at about 11,000 $ US in today’s dollars. Just to compare, today a 10 MB of disk space would cost you about half a dollar.
It seems kind of crazy now to put those costs in terms of today's data, but it's true. The rest of the post is true as well and although I'm still a little shy (mainly because of my own learning curve at modelling data for this environment right) I think I'm going to start using RavenDB a lot more as a commodity and less as a curiosity/learning experiment.
Although he highlights it in the post (which I'm having trouble finding directly on the site - I read it in Google Reader) is how using NoSQL allows for a lot more flexibility with data structures. I could not agree more and can honestly say this has been one of the bigger pleasures of using it to this point.
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