Thinking in GIS

In the last months there has been a plenty of activity in the non relational (NoSQL) database world.NoSQL database tries to solve 3 main RDBMS problems:Scalability, for example the ability to automatically partitioning data across multiple machinesPerformance, in some case RDBMS can be very slowFixed schema: RDBMS have nice goodness (referential integrity, relationships, triggers...) but force you to store any object to a fixed schema (migrations are a pain!)Basically there are several different kinds of NoSQL database:Key/Value (Scalaris, Tokio Cabinet, Voldemort): store data in key/value pairs: very efficient for performance and higly scalable, but difficult to query and to implement...
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