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- I created `kindstore` for exactly this (only supports Bun currently). I never promoted the project until this comment. Curious if anyone is intrigued?by retropragma
- I developed an application using zope on the backend and extjs (now Sencha) and SQLite on the front end in 2009. The form + data was stored as strings in the database and then synced to back-end when connected to the internet. It was targeting remote doctors in third world countries who were often offline. Several doctors at that time had told me they wanted to store the medical data in the same format as the intake form mostly because that was what they were used to with paper forms. Soon after, there was a big push for medical ERP and relational databases won over document databases. I bet it would be much easier to build an application like that now (data stored and displayed in same format as collected) but wonder what market would use it.
- obviously the example is contrived, but it seems strange me that they are not storing the json in its own column - just extracting a single key from it and storing in a generated column. Why not do that in the app code if youre just going to discard the rest of the json?
Here's an example i saw yesterday from mariadb, which is improving its json support in its upcoming releases.
https://mariadb.com/docs/server/ha-and-performance/optimizat...
``` CREATE TABLE t1 (json_data JSON); INSERT INTO t1 VALUES('{"column1": 1234}'); INSERT INTO t1 ... ```
In order to do efficient queries over data in JSON, you can add a virtual column, and an index on that column:
``` ALTER TABLE t1 ADD COLUMN vcol1 INT AS (cast(json_value(json_data, '$.column1') AS INTEGER)), ADD INDEX(vcol1);
```
by nchmy - Is this not similar to what Simon Willison has written about before?
https://sqlite-tutorial-pycon-2023.readthedocs.io/en/latest/...
by tolerance - > it added a killer feature: generated columns
It would be super cool if somehow SwiftData could translate computed properties of @Model objects into these generated columns via the #Expression macro!
by wwalexander - Why do people say document database when they really just mean json database?by WhitneyLand
- Why don’t you use MongoDB? MongoDB is web scale.
https://youtu.be/b2F-DItXtZs?is=HlayyJ_DPb8NzbS4
(lol! couldn’t resist)
by mayankbpatel - I am using SQLite as document db for a side project for years now. Made a custom repository base class that can also store blobs in separate columns, so this type of data is not part of the json document. Today there is also jsonb [1], as far as I remember all functions work the same for json and jsonb.
Also the repo class stores write and delete timestamps as separate columns so I can have CDC. CDC is used for building cached view models and is pushed to object storage every 5 minutes for backup as NDJSON. Another process on home server is restoring the db every couple of minutes for second backup and ready to use DB in case it's needed.
I know there are things like Litestream, I wanted something in process and something that can send alerts on failed backups.
by stanac