How does a relational database work?

Re:How does a relational database work? by duaneb on Thursday August 20, 2015 @12:30AM (#10090031)

The buzz around NoSQL is you don't have to worry about scaling the database. There are many, many more options now for e.g. multi-master, sharding, no-downtime copy-on-write migrations, etc., but just the idea of being able to run a tiny subset of queries or writes without having to worry about running out of resource capacity is a HUGE plus.

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Re:How does a relational database work? by plonh on Thursday August 20, 2015 @12:52AM (#10090070)

But having data corruption baked into the system design is shuge minus. Even the big shots at Google and Amazon are constantly firefighting data corruption in their NoSQL systems.

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Re:How does a relational database work? by duaneb on Thursday August 20, 2015 @01:55AM (#10090196)

I'm not quite sure what you're referring to. But at certain scales of data (petabytes, probably?) data corruption is inevitable. I do not know if they use ECC.

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