On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 12:07 PM, walt <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/02/2010 04:23 AM, Arttu V. wrote: >> >> On 3/2/10, walt<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> This article was a big surprise to me. Am I the last one to hear about >>> this >>> stuff? >>> >>> >>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10461670-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 >> >> If you're expecting a discussion then perhaps you'd care to narrow it >> down a bit: which part of the article are we expected to feel >> surprised about? > > I was surprised that three major social networking sites have dumped > MySQL (but now the article says only two sites). I've also not heard > of the "NoSQL" movement before, and I'm curious to know what's motivating > it. Maybe nobody trusts Oracle? > > >
The motivation is response times. Non relational systems, specialized for its task, can give speed ups of about one order of magnitud. -- Andrés
