Posts Tagged: scalability

Dropping ACID

Posted by & filed under Data Architecture, Database Engineering, Mongodb, MySQL, Oracle.

The de-facto durability story in MongoDB is essentially… there is none. Or at least single server durability. OMFG! No ACID WTF! &^%#^#?! For the next generation of internet scale, downtime intolerant systems, ACID may not be a desirable property. Traditional data stores like Oracle, PostgreSQL and MySQL all have a durability design built in. They… Read more »

Open source databases; scaling the application stack.

Posted by & filed under PostgreSQL.

After reading Allan Packers excellent blog entry; Are Proprietary Databases Doomed?, a couple of additional thoughts came to mind. He mentions that open source databases (OSDB’s) are becoming ‘good enough’, and explains about how most users don’t need or use the vast amount of the features available in the proprietary databases, and thus, OSDB’s are… Read more »