I'm just trying it out but I believe that, for example, if a User object was a blob, you couldn't issue a query like "fetch user with username = 'foo'". �You would have to read all the users into Smalltalk and do a select:

Anyway that's my impression of how Couch works.

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Davorin Rusevljan <davorin.rusevljan@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Marcus Denker <marcus.denker@inria.fr> wrote:
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> Does it need to be JSON?

Since CouchDB stores data in json - I guess the answer is very likely
yes, since just storing serialized blobs inside CouchDB would loose
all querying and indexing available.

I don't understand. What is the difference from the querying and indexing point of view between serializing with JSON or a binary serializer.

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