On: FoundationDB: A new generation of NoSQL database

[Roboprog]

I'm guessing that no-SQL documents are written at a more course granularity than SQL table rows. One document could well represent 3, 4, 5 rows in a normalized SQL database.

OTOH, if you put all your "documents" in 3rd normal form, you might not see much gain.

[cbsmith → Roboprog]

The overhead with transactions doesn't come from the fields being in different tables...

[voidmain → cbsmith]

You are right. Our API is strong enough that you could implement a SQL database on top of it efficiently. I have done it (using sqlite4 as the front end) as a proof of concept.