Re: [Firebird-devel] NoSQL, Transactions, and Minor Flames

2015-02-20 Thread James Starkey
On Thursday, February 19, 2015, Thomas Steinmaurer t...@iblogmanager.com wrote: Jim, http://www.cio.co.uk/insight/data-management/jim-starkeys-nosql-low-down-it-wont-solve-big-data-3598479/ What do you think about tunable consistency instead of eventual consistency?

Re: [Firebird-devel] NoSQL, Transactions, and Minor Flames

2015-02-20 Thread Thomas Steinmaurer
On Thursday, February 19, 2015, Thomas Steinmaurer t...@iblogmanager.com mailto:t...@iblogmanager.com wrote: Jim, http://www.cio.co.uk/insight/data-management/jim-starkeys-nosql-low-down-it-wont-solve-big-data-3598479/ What do you think about tunable consistency

Re: [Firebird-devel] NoSQL, Transactions, and Minor Flames

2015-02-20 Thread Jim Starkey
Are you using the durability term strictly in the area of transactions or in a sense that a successful write survives a system crash? Durability has all sorts of interesting characteristics. In general, it means that after something bad, committed transactions persist. The questions are

Re: [Firebird-devel] NoSQL, Transactions, and Minor Flames

2015-02-20 Thread Thomas Steinmaurer
Are you using the durability term strictly in the area of transactions or in a sense that a successful write survives a system crash? Durability has all sorts of interesting characteristics. In general, it means that after something bad, committed transactions persist. The questions are

[Firebird-devel] NoSQL, Transactions, and Minor Flames

2015-02-19 Thread Jim Starkey
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Re: [Firebird-devel] NoSQL, Transactions, and Minor Flames

2015-02-19 Thread Thomas Steinmaurer
Jim, http://www.cio.co.uk/insight/data-management/jim-starkeys-nosql-low-down-it-wont-solve-big-data-3598479/ What do you think about tunable consistency instead of eventual consistency? http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/2.0/cassandra/dml/dml_config_consistency_c.html Thanks,