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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.

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  1. Re:Complex? by tomhath · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Obviously you have never worked with HL7. One message will have hundreds, if not thousands of pieces of data.

  2. Quit it with the revisionist history. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The "NoSQL means Not Only SQL" crap you're shitting out is nothing more than the NoSQL community frantically backtracking after their "NoSQL means No SQL" ideas were shown to be disastrous bunk.

    Instead of owning up to the fact that they were horribly, horribly wrong, and made some really fucking stupid suggestions, the NoSQLers have just decided to change history. They pretend that they weren't saying what they very clearly said in the past. And they obviously need to admit that SQL and relational databases are the only viable option, but can't do this without looking like the fools that they are, so they admit that it's okay to use "sometimes". And this "sometimes" ends up being "all the time", but again, they can't openly say that without looking like the incompetents that they are.

    Face it, "NoSQL" does mean "No SQL". It always has, and it always will. No amount of backtracking will change the fact that the NoSQL crowd was full of shit, and still is.