{"id":3267,"date":"2011-01-13T22:56:17","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T02:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=3267"},"modified":"2011-01-13T22:56:17","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T02:56:17","slug":"rdbms-versus-nosql-article-drafted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/13\/rdbms-versus-nosql-article-drafted\/","title":{"rendered":"RDBMS versus NoSQL article drafted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Folks:<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve drafted an <a href=\"http:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/teaching\/three-day-rdbms\/beyond-the-rdbms\">RDBMS versus NoSQL<\/a> article for the<a href=\"http:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/teaching\/rdbms-iap-2011\"> three-day RDBMS course<\/a> that we&#8217;re teaching this weekend at MIT (you&#8217;re welcome to take the class, even if you&#8217;re not an MIT student; just email me). 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