JSON type - Document Databases

[dimitri-yatsenko]

Spec 2.0 does not provide a JSON type. This type is essential for enabling DataJoint perform the functions of a document database.

Here we will discuss creating a DSEP to add JSON support as a core data type in DataJoint.

[ttngu207]

In DataJoint pipeline, we routinely store config, settings or parameters in Datajoint tables as a python dictionary, using the type longblob. This works great. But it does not allow for querying the blob, ones must first fetch it back. JSON type would allow for this.