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

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 9, 2014 @02:05PM 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.

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Who knew? by namgge · 2014-09-09 14:17 · 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.
Re:How quickly will they run back to Oracle? by Tablizer · 2014-09-09 14:56 · 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.
Proof by Dishwasha · 2014-09-09 16:02 · Score: 4, Funny

That dropping ACID is not hazardous to your health.
Re:Holy shit! by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-09 23:36 · Score: 2, Funny

Is this a big IT project that actually worked?

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