NoSQL Movement?

[Xah Lee]

On Mar 10, 9:26 am, Duncan Booth <duncan.bo... at invalid.invalid> wrote:
> No, I'm saying that if you plan to build a business that could grow you
> should be clear up front how you plan to handle the growth. It's too late
> if you suddenly discover your platform isn't scalable just when you need to
> scale it.

Right, but that doesn't seems to have any relevance about my point.
Many says that scalability is key to NoSQL, i pointed out that unless
you are like google, or ranked top 1000 in the world in terms data
size, the scalability reason isn't that strong.

Xah Lee wrote:

> many people mentioned scalibility... though i think it is fruitful to
> talk about at what size is the NoSQL databases offer better
> scalability than SQL databases.
>
> For example, consider, if you are within world's top 100th user of
> database in terms of database size, such as Google, then it may be
> that the off-the-shelf tools may be limiting. But how many users
> really have such massive size of data?  note that google's need for
> database today isn't just a seach engine.
>
> It's db size for google search is probably larger than all the rest of
> search engine company's sizes combined. Plus, there's youtube (vid
> hosting), gmail, google code (source code hosting), google blog, orkut
> (social networking), picasa (photo hosting), etc, each are all ranked
> within top 5 or so with respective competitors in terms of number of
> accounts... so, google's datasize is probably number one among the
> world's user of databases, probably double or triple than the second
> user with the most large datasize. At that point, it seems logical
> that they need their own db, relational or not.

  Xah
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