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Horizontal Scaling of SQL Databases?

Posted by timothy on from the side-to-side dept.

still_sick writes "I'm currently responsible for operations at a software-as-a-service startup, and we're increasingly hitting limitations in what we can do with relational databases. We've been looking at various NoSQL stores and I've been following Adrian Cockcroft's blog at Netflix which compares the various options. I was intrigued by the most recent entry, about Translattice, which purports to provide many of the same scaling advantages for SQL databases. Is this even possible given the CAP theorem? Is anyone using a system like this in production?"

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  1. Re:XML by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    XXXML

  2. Re:Call me skeptical by Squeebee · · Score: 5, Funny

    Agreed, we have massive sites serving millions of requests a day using Open Source relational databases and yet it seems everyone wants to use NoSQL because it's the hip new thing.

    Naturally I start thinking of this: http://xtranormal.com/watch/6995033

  3. Re:Call me skeptical by Cylix · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just select * from * and then sort it out with grep and cut.

    --
    "You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours." -- Yogi Berra
  4. Re:Wow by Squeebee · · Score: 5, Funny

    Congratulations, you just won Slashdot's buzzword bingo, please collect your prize at the cashier window in the back of the hall.