Comments on: Cassandra and the NoSQL scalable OLTP argument

By: Confluence: Andromeda

Confluence: Andromeda — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 21:39:49 +0000

The Brisk Hadoop Ring…

The Brisk Hadoop Ring Jake Luciani, DataStax Brisk…

By: ehcache.net

ehcache.net — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 15:05:20 +0000

Cassandra and the NoSQL scalable OLTP argument…

Todd Hoff put up a provocative post on High Scalability called MySQL and Memcached: End of an Era? The post itself focuses on observations like:

Facebook invented and is adopting Cassandra.
Twitter is adopting Cassandra.
Digg is adopting Cassandra. …

By: NoSQL Is Not SQL And That’s A Problem

NoSQL Is Not SQL And That’s A Problem — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 02:33:01 +0000

[...] the NoSQL movement. While some are announcing an end of era for MySQL and memcached others are questioning the arguments behind Cassandra’s OLTP claims and scalability and universal applicability of NoSQL. It is great to see innovative data [...]

By: Memcached-based company NorthScale launches | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:53:52 +0000

[...] based around memcached, has just launched, two weeks after the Todd Hoff’s post arguing the MySQL/memcached combo is passe’. NorthScale wouldn’t necessarily argue with Todd, arguing that what you really should use [...]

By: Some NoSQL links | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services

Some NoSQL links | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:51:53 +0000

[...] Callaghan hit back against the NoSQL movement, and in particular against the MySQL/memcached is passe‘ meme. On the other hand, he also bemoaned many failings of MySQL. On the third hand, he [...]

By: Richard Gowan

Richard Gowan — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:56:13 +0000

With the proviso that I’ve not read all the arguments yet… It looks to me (so far) that the transaction volumes are not as difficult as are made out.

Is it perhaps more true that particular companies and businesses do not have big up-front analysis. And possibly for good reason.

Their business model seems to be more around attracting users, continually modifying the system to keep them interested, then finding revenue streams later.

Then once in production… they are unlikely to radically change the model/schema – or system architecture.

By: NoSQL Is Not SQL And That’s A Problem | CloudAve

NoSQL Is Not SQL And That’s A Problem | CloudAve — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:00:32 +0000

By: Curt Monash

Curt Monash — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:36:49 +0000

@ac,

It’s both. Data integrity in these big web apps is commonly less than the minimum acceptable for financial transactions. But losing data is still frowned upon.

By: ac

ac — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:52:14 +0000

> Because the transactions are so simple that hand-coding all that isn’t prohibitive. And of course because of their extreme performance and scalability needs.

Wrong. The true reason is because there is no money involve in those “transactions”. Nobody cares unless you really screw up. You don’t need the database to save your ass.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:45:13 +0000

The Flickr presentation is 5.5 years old.