Is there an efficient way to query a document database?

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Published on 2010-03-20T15:10:29Z Indexed on 2010/03/20 16:41 UTC
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Since document databases store records in tree like structures the fields will never be at set positions. Does this make querying a document database inefficient, or would indexes just be used as with a normal relational database?

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