Yale Researchers Prove That ACID Is Scalable

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Yale Researchers Prove That ACID Is Scalable

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday September 1, 2010 @04:49AM from the i-could-prove-lunch dept.

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."

11 of 272 comments (clear)

digg does not need to worry anymore by Dan667 · 2010-09-01 04:57 · Score: 5, Funny

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.
1. Re:digg does not need to worry anymore by BabyDuckHat · 2010-09-01 05:48 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Yeah, now instead of being a glorified RSS feed for reddit, they're an actual RSS feed for reddit. Great change!
2. Re:digg does not need to worry anymore by mikelieman · 2010-09-01 19:43 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  And they would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those meddling kids!
  
  --
  Technology -- No Place For Wimps! Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia Chatroom -- http://www.wemissjerry.org
Berkeley DB by nacturation · 2010-09-01 04:58 · Score: 3, Funny

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

--
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
1. Re:Berkeley DB by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-01 05:04 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Your grasp of the obvious is on par with a character from a Dan Brown novel.
Re:Pfah. by Splab · 2010-09-01 05:33 · Score: 5, Funny

"Your Googling May Vary."
Yes, that is exactly the problem with NoSQL.
Re:Pfah. by Tablizer · 2010-09-01 06:10 · Score: 2, Funny

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

--
Table-ized A.I.
Re:Pfah. by GooberToo · 2010-09-01 06:26 · Score: 4, Funny

Funny. Insightful. Informative. So many options with your post. I'm sure at least one moderator will get it figured out.
Re:Pfah. by smooth+wombat · 2010-09-01 07:01 · Score: 4, Funny

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?

--
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Re:I have to admit by spun · 2010-09-01 07:15 · Score: 2, Funny

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...

--
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Re:Pfah. by Atzanteol · 2010-09-01 09:32 · Score: 2, Funny

Right now it's like men wearing womens' underwear and vice-verse.
You mean it makes me feel pretty?

--
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"

- Charles Darwin