Non-SQL data storage as part of the noSQL movement, Handling large data volumes across many servers
It's a specialized distributed database for massive scale, not a general-purpose replacement for SQL databases.
Situations where the relational model and SQL are exceptionally valuable
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Then you see the likes of Twitter a decade or more ago who dedicated possibly hundreds of engineers to make Cassandra work. That’s doing Google shit. But they aren’t Google. And eventually those chickens come home to roost.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Database infrastructure, likely for scaling
mongo, Cassandra, various graph databases, and other non-sql data stores do have valuable uses (I think some people just went too far against SQL and the relational model, which also remains exceptionally valuable).
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Non-SQL data storage as part of the noSQL movement
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