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Re:Dear NoSQL: "SQL-isn't-scalable" is a lie by evgen on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @12:22AM (#1163475)
> CAP still allows a SQL database that is scalable, consistent, and available

Name one please. It seems you are either fundamentally mistaken about what CAP implies or are constraining the "solution" to a clustered system that is effectively a single RDBMS hiding behind lots of tightly-coupled components.

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Re:Dear NoSQL: "SQL-isn't-scalable" is a lie by wmf on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @02:06PM (#1164819)
A tightly-coupled (whatever that means) cluster sounds like a perfectly legitimate way to scale to me.
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Re:Dear NoSQL: "SQL-isn't-scalable" is a lie by barrkel on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @05:53PM (#1165469)
And what if that datacentre goes down? And what if you want reasonable (<50ms) latencies in different parts of the world?
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