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[Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Jason Kölker <jkoelker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 16:20 +0100, Soren Hansen wrote:
>>
>> It seems I've talked myself into preferring option e). It's too much
>> work to do on my own, though, and it's going to be disruptive, so we
>> need to do it real soon. I think it'll be worth it, though.
>
> I agree. This will also make it easier to swap out the storage with
> other Non-SQLAlchemy datastores *cough* ElasticSearch *cough*.

There's a very good reason this hasn't happened so far: handling
highly relational datasets with a non-relational data store is a bad
idea. In fact, I seem to remember that is exactly how Nova's data
store started out life (*cough* Redis *cough*)

-jay