10348756
submission
abartels writes:
"It seems like there's been little but bad news and resignations coming from Oracle since it finally managed to close the deal on Sun. Finally, there's good news in that Drizzle seems to have a bright future ahead. It just isn't with Oracle but with the Rackspace Cloud."
6906158
submission
abartels writes:
Unprecedented data volumes are driving businesses to look at alternatives to the traditional relational database technology that has served us well for over thirty years. Collectively, these alternatives have become known as NoSQL databases. The fundamental problem is that relational databases cannot handle many modern workloads. There are three specific problem areas: scaling out to data sets like Diggs (3 TB for green badges) or Facebooks (50 TB for inbox search) or eBays (2 PB overall), per-server performance, and rigid schema design.
