Yale Researchers Prove That ACID Is Scalable

An anonymous reader writes "The has been a lot of buzz in the industry lately about NoSQL databases helping Twitter, Amazon, and Digg scale their transactional workloads. But there has been some recent pushback from database luminaries such as Michael Stonebraker. Now, a couple of researchers at Yale University claim that NoSQL is no longer necessary now that they have scaled traditional ACID compliant database systems."

digg does not need to worry anymore

[Dan667]

digg has chased all their users away with the new version of their site so they could probably change over to MS Access and be ok.

Berkeley DB

[nacturation]

Didn't Berkeley prove back in the 60s and 70s that acid was scalable?

Re:Berkeley DB

[Anonymous Coward]

Your grasp of the obvious is on par with a character from a Dan Brown novel.

Re:Pfah.

[Splab]

"Your Googling May Vary."

Yes, that is exactly the problem with NoSQL.

Re:digg does not need to worry anymore

[BabyDuckHat]

Yeah, now instead of being a glorified RSS feed for reddit, they're an actual RSS feed for reddit. Great change!

Re:Pfah.

[Tablizer]

After all, MySql is why slashdot is so relia~ `} v* m& + ' ,

Re:Pfah.

[GooberToo]

Funny. Insightful. Informative. So many options with your post. I'm sure at least one moderator will get it figured out.

Re:Pfah.

[smooth wombat]

they tried to switch to Oracle, but it was too slow.

What? Oracle too slow? How dare you besmirch the all-powerful Larry Ellison. We switched from a mainframe environment which handled all our sales data to an Oralce-based ERP system. I'll show you how fast this puppy now runs. Let me show you our sales data for the last month...

Hang on, I'll get the answer in a minute...

Bear with me, it will be here soon...

Here's a bottle of Mountain Dew while you wait...

Can I get you anything to snack on? M&M's? Doritos? A Snickers bar perhaps?

Re:I have to admit

[spun]

I have a different image of ACID on Windows than they do.

Is it the image of Bill Gates in an Easter bunny outfit trying to force Steve Ballmer into a large cast iron kettle filled with Skittles and baby mice? 'Cause that's the image I have of ACID on Windows...

Re:Pfah.

[Atzanteol]

Right now it's like men wearing womens' underwear and vice-verse.

You mean it makes me feel pretty?

Re:digg does not need to worry anymore

[mikelieman]

And they would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those meddling kids!