[ale] NoSQL web scaling - ot humor

[Shawn]

btw, it's web scale ;)


On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Shawn <taaj.shawn at gmail.com> wrote:

> I can write you a NoSQL frontend for MySQL.. NoSQL is just that, talking
> to a database without sql syntax.
>
> if( db.blog.posts.findOne() )
>     print("blog.posts exists and is not empty.");
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 2:12 PM, David Tomaschik <david at systemoverlord.com
> > wrote:
>
>> NoSQL actually has a lot of good use in Map/Reduce workloads.
>>
>> If your data has a lot of structure and _relationships_, NoSQL is...
>> less useful.
>>
>> I've actually seen a project where they implemented a "relational"
>> database on top of MongoDB... It had a feature set roughly equivalent
>> to sqlite, and half (if that) the performance, and none of the
>> portability.
>>
>> David
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 2:00 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > That's pretty good.
>> >
>> > The only thing I've bee able to think of that NoSQL "databases" could
>> > be useful for is session data.
>> >
>> > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:17, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at water.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Having heard various people talk about how relational DBs are a thing
>> of the
>> >> past at AUUG I found this especially amusing in a discussion about
>> scalable
>> >> solutions:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> http://www.mongodb-is-web-scale.com/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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> *- Shawn Taaj*
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