On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 5:03 AM, Jason Rutherglen < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Unlike MapReduce, there are no infrastructure whitepapers on > how GData/Base works so I had to make a broad comparison rather than a > specific one. My understanding is that GBase is based on the infrastructure that Google is building for large scale distributed computing (Google File System, MapReduce, BigTable, GData, etc.) More specifically, BigTable, the column storage "database" which requires extremely high performance and reliability, but provides only weak guarantees on data consistency. There is plenty of documentation on these technologies. I agree with Otis that it is clear to mention the characteristics of RDBMS that real-time search displays such as atomicity and transactionality. -- Joaquin
