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UK's National Health Service Moves To NoSQL Running On an Open-Source Stack

Posted by Soulskill on from the deciding-to-DROP-it dept.

An anonymous reader sends this news from El Reg: The U.K.'s National Health Service has ripped the Oracle backbone from a national patient database system and inserted NoSQL running on an open-source stack. Spine2 has gone live following successful redevelopment including redeployment on new, x86 hardware. The project to replace Spine1 had been running for three years with Spine2 now undergoing a 45-day monitoring period. Spine is the NHS’s main secure patient database and messaging platform, spanning a vast estate of blades and SANs. It logs the non-clinical information on 80 million people in Britain – holding data on everything from prescriptions and payments to allergies. Spine is also a messaging hub, serving electronic communications between 20,000 applications that include the Electronic Prescription Service and Summary Care Record. It processes more than 500 complex messages a second.

5 of 198 comments (clear)

  1. Who knew? by namgge · · Score: 4, Funny

    As service-user I've always had the impression that the NHS database was a large Excel workbook and a load of VB macros written by interns.

  2. Re:How quickly will they run back to Oracle? by Tablizer · · Score: 2, Funny

    anyone who works with databases in industry knows that "NoSQL" has come to mean inconsistent data, corrupted data, and silently lost data

    If you like your ys^d%f7, you can keep your jf# -^',{ ~

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    Table-ized A.I.
  3. Proof by Dishwasha · · Score: 4, Funny

    That dropping ACID is not hazardous to your health.

  4. Re:Complex? by St.Creed · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hmm.. I think you just coined a new word.

    "Oponion: an opinion so irritating it brings tears to your eyes." :)

    (the WTF-observations seem valid btw, but I couldn't resist adding to the Devil's Dictionary :))

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    Therefore, by the (faulty) logic you're using, you're just a cow with a keyboard - osu-neko (2604)
  5. Re:Holy shit! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is this a big IT project that actually worked?

    Maybe because they were removing an Oracle database instead of implementing one.