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'cause what the world needs is another proprietary NoSQL solution.


I don't think it is about world. I would expect it is about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish

And looking at their diagram[1] I already see where they can make this strategy work. While their collection/document/attachment structure is quite straightforward to move to another document DB, their UDF, sprocs and triggers I bet will be microsoft-specific. And microsoft will make everything possible to "optimize data fetching by running processing code close to data" and lure developers into using these. And in the end locking software solution to microsoft platform.

[1] http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/docu...


As long as it offers something new, I don't see anything wrong with that.

I've been working with MongoDB for the last year and DocumentDB features look very interesting to me.


Yeah, once you go down that road for a while, you'll understand how proprietary NoSQL is a giant PITA.


'cause what the world needs is another pXrXoXpXrXiXeXtXaXrXyX NoSQL solution.


Are those X's supposed ^H's.




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