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NYT: Healthcare.gov Project Chaos Due Partly To Unorthodox Database Choice

Posted by timothy on from the even-if-it's-perfectly-nice dept.

First time accepted submitter conoviator writes "The NY Times has just published a piece providing more background on the healthcare.gov software project. One interesting aspect: 'Another sore point was the Medicare agency's decision to use database software, from a company called MarkLogic, that managed the data differently from systems by companies like IBM, Microsoft and Oracle. CGI officials argued that it would slow work because it was too unfamiliar. Government officials disagreed, and its configuration remains a serious problem.'" The story does not say that MarkLogic's software is bad in itself, only that the choice meant increased complexity on the project.

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  1. Re:follow the money by Desler · · Score: 5, Funny

    They should have just used MongoDB. I hear it's web scale. *ducks*

  2. Re:follow the money by killkillkill · · Score: 4, Funny

    XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve your problems you are not using enough of it.

    I'm starting to think that saying came from the government.

  3. Re:follow the money by Lord+Crc · · Score: 4, Funny

    They should have just used MongoDB. I hear it's web scale.

    Web scale or not, I have no idea. But I do think they've got the best bug report ever in their tracker.