Why Some Devs Can't Wait For NoSQL To Die

theodp writes "Ted Dziuba can't wait for NoSQL to die. Developing your app for Google-sized scale, says Dziuba, is a waste of your time. Not to mention there is no way you will get it right. The sooner your company admits this, the sooner you can get down to some real work. If real businesses like Walmart can track all of their data in SQL databases that scale just fine, Dziuba argues, surely your company can, too."

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[BadAnalogyGuy]

People who don't like SQL should get their heads out of their asses and use MySQL, a robust and enterprise-ready database.

Interesting thesis...

I can't wait for databases to die

[Anonymous Coward]

XML text files all the way! /duck

Don't you dare tell me...

[AmazingRuss]

... that I can't tell others what to do!

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[c-reus]

Oracle database license prices scale very well, too.

Re:I can't wait for databases to die

[WrongSizeGlass]

Let me be the first to say whoosh .

ORLY?

[Anonymous Coward]

You can survive a slashdotting just fine without spending so much time on those exotic tools.

Care to provide a link to your site so we can test this?

...because "there can be only one!"

[Joce640k]

The whole of geek debating is based on the Highlander principle.

Re:Some docs can't wait for Cardiac Clamps to die.

[gazbo]

You missed out the bit where the article about cardiac clamps talks about how much better they are than the old-fashioned medium vascular clamp. And how every subsequent edition of JAMA has several articles all trumpeting the glory of the cardiac clamps over the now-outdated vascular clamps (although all of these articles are written by first-year med students who have never actually performed an operation - but they did once have a nose-bleed and chose to use a cardiac clamp to stop it).

Analogies are FUN!

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[shmlco]

"I would definitely fire anyone who specifies Oracle in my organisation."

Since you can't even spell organization, I doubt you're in a position to fire anyone at all... (grin)

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[mkavanagh2]

i don't think you can read. pretty marvellous that you still managed to post, though!

Re:I can't wait for databases to die

[Phroggy]

Remember, XML is like violence: if it doesn't solve your problem, use more!

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[RightSaidFred99]

Do you like to come on the Internets and prove you don't know what you're talking about, or do you sometimes get drunk and can't help yourself?

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[daver00]

But you go ahead, keep pretending you have some sort of clue and are witty by pointing out its expensive.

Cos you know, its way cooler to just berate him for his obvious inferiority....

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[vegiVamp]

But.. but... surely, if *one* order of magnitude is 10x, *two* orders of magnitude must be 20x ? Please ? *cough*