It will be interesting to see how this progresses. I noticed in the link you sent that Facebook has 50TB and ebay has 2PB.
A long time ago there were some messages in this newsgroup about storing images in a field in the data table. The consensus (I think) was that you should not do that. You should only store a pointer to a file on the disk with your image or other very large file. The difference in this and NoSQL is that you can only find the file by whatever you used in the data table to point to the file. NoSQL seems to be a way to search in the folder where you store the large files? I would be interested to know how they do that. I don't see any specifics in those links. Our company has had a EHR (electronic healthcare record) for years, but we recommend that the doctor store a simple note like those in a paper chart. We definitely do not recommend trying to store scanned images (tiff or pdf, etc) or pictures (jpg, etc). At this time we partnered with a company x-link.info to link our database to many 'certified' EHR programs. To be 'certified' those EHR programs must store lab tests, x-rays, etc. For a small internal medicine group of doctors (3-8 for example) that might be many terabytes for 7 years of data. How would you backup 7 TB data? If this new healthcare bills survives the constitutional test, it might create a lot of work for companies that have 'server farms' ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Leafe" <[email protected]> To: "ProFox Email List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 10:19 AM Subject: Re: [NF] For those interested in Big Data On Sep 22, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Dan Covill wrote: > Wow! That's the most new terms I had to look up since the MS press > release for Win 8. It took me several days of working with Cassandra until I could wrap my head around it. I have been working with data in relational sets for so long that the notion of working with a non-relational database seemed like reading Chinese. But I'm happy to say that I picked it up much faster than I would have become fluent in Chinese! Non-relational data is not better or worse than relational - it's simply solving a different type of problem with a different approach. -- Ed Leafe [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/033701cc7951$b93e1ff0$7a00a8c0@w2k3s02 ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
