[dba-SQLServer] NoSQL Movement Gains Steam

I was reading that article the other day and I got to thinking that  
may be an excellent alternative for my companies customer portal,  
scalability of that size can certainly help in situations where users  
are waiting for the system to spit back out the details of their  
order  ( large BOMs etc )


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On Jul 5, 2009, at 3:31 AM, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> As the old wag said, "When all you have is a hammer, everything  
> looks like a
> nail." In our case, the hammer is SQL. But some very large companies  
> have
> decided that for their needs, the overhead of SQL is overkill. These
> companies include some big names like Facebook and Adobe and several
> lesser-known but big players (i.e. multiple terabytes and even  
> petabytes of
> structurally simple data). Facebook replaced MySQL with a system  
> developed
> in-house called Cassandra, which can write 500 GB of data in 0.12
> milliseconds, more than 2500 times faster than MySQL.
> You can read about this at
> http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/anti-database-movement-gains-steam-924?page=0,0&source=rss_infoworld_news
> .
>
> Arthur
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