[BangPypers] NoSQL (was: BangPypers meeting February 2011)

[vikas ruhil]

< have you try even BIG QUERY service from Google as Trusted Tester?
< than you will find out your answer definitely?

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 13 2011, Santosh Rajan wrote:
>
> > Google has BigTable as its nosql implementation. You would think that,
> > for a mission critical massive scale operation like Google adwords,
> > Google uses BigTable right? Wrong! They use MySQL.
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdWords#Technology
> >
> > Google see's so much value with what works, that in fact they submit
> > patches to MySQL, for any large scale problem they faced.
> >
> > Understanding that your job is "to get the job done", and new fangled
> > stuff is simply not worth the risk, when postgresql or MySQL can get
> > the job done, will take you a long way towards database zen.
>
> RDBMS and document stores optimise for different things[1]. This diagram
> shows where these different systems fall
> http://guide.couchdb.org/editions/1/en/consistency.html#cap
>
> Shoehorning an application that would best work with an RDMBS (and all
> the things that it offers) to work with a document store is folly.
>
> It's equally dumb to force something that's a natural fit for a document
> store to use an RDMBS.
>
> Google used mySQL for adwords because they needed what it offered.
> They use BigTable for a number of other products because it's a better
> fit over there http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigTable#History
>
> I'm new to the whole NoSQL thing but it offers new ideas and I think
> dismissing them as "new fangled stuff" that's "not worth the risk" is
> myopic.
>
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> Footnotes:
> [1]  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem
>
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