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When we all got locked down, I needed a project to keep my brain active. (That gets important as you get older: I just had my 80th birthday).  My wife is learning Spanish and I tried writing a novel (it didn’t fly). In the end I decided to do something that I was good at – software development.  I wrote a generic system to update and query a database using node.js. Test system here: http://www.sudsjs.com.

The database is accessed through a driver, which initially was written and tested for MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite 3. Since then, I have implemented (or tried) various NOSQL systems. So here is a summary and a link to any blog posts about all of the databases I have used.  

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I decided to use my lockdown project SUDSJS.com to test out a few different NOSQL database management systems (DBMS).  

SUDSJS is written in JavaScript using the node.js server-side system and I designed it so that I could plug in different drivers for different databases. I wrote database drivers for MySQL, SQLite 3 and PostgreSQL. The first NOSQL system I tried was MongoDB, and the SUDSJS.com test site is currently running using this (correction – it is now running on CouchDB). The second NOSQL system I tried was Firestore from Google. 

It didn’t go well.

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