Pros/cons of document-based databases vs. relational databases

Question

I\'ve been trying to see if I can accomplish some requirements with a document based database, in this case CouchDB. Two generic requirements:

• CRUD of entit

Answer 1

Re CRUD: the whole REST paradigm maps directly to CRUD (or vice versa). So if you know that you can model your requirements with resources (identifiable via URIs) and a basic set of operations (namely CRUD), you may be very near to a REST-based system, which quite a few document-oriented systems provide out of the box.