I would avoid this, personally. Serious transactions and complex queries are pretty much incompatible with simple implementation and large scale.
Flow based updates and write-behind are more the norm. On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Jason Rutherglen < jason.rutherg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I haven't seen any search sites that absolutely need transactional > > consistency. > > While this is true, databases usually require this? And so this is > somewhat of an out-of-the-box view on search, and this's why it's > perhaps better to frame it more in the context databases, eg, > transactions, consistency, and complex queries.