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Yale Researchers Prove That ACID Is Scalable

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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."

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  1. Re:I hate SQL and Databases in General... by paulsnx2 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The "old" part isn't the problem, but that there ARE other solutions and better solutions (that might address all previous issues) that are being actively ignored.

    You are not going to win points for reading comprehension if you don't read the whole sentence.