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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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