Tag Archives: distributed computing

Database Snark

August 28, 2010 – 8:46 am

Whenever I hear about relational databases not scaling – I think “you are doing it wrong”. There are a ton of applications where the NoSQL solutions make a ton of sense. However, saying “Relational databases do not scale” is not a valid one. They don’t scale easily, but they do scale. Side note – I [...]

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Do as you auttah, never pour ACID into Watah

March 8, 2010 – 6:54 pm

Many years ago, I had a high school science teacher who used that simple line to teach us the proper direction for mixing acid and water. If we forgot, typically there would be sizzling and maybe a mess afterward (only once an explosion). Recently, I’ve been doing a lot of reading on ACID, BASE and [...]

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