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Re:What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber [video] by maxlamb on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @12:39PM (#12599105)
Although companies like Snowflake are bridging the gap between the two camps, with products that can natively ingest JSON and Avro, and makes it queryable via SQL allowing for joins etc.
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Re:What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber [video] by fail2fail2ban on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @12:53PM (#12599243)
It's possible to use SQL to retrieve data from a text file; that's not the same as using SQL backed by an actual relational database engine (and a well designed schema) that has been perfected over many decades.
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Re:What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber [video] by maxlamb on Thursday September 29, 2016 @04:36PM (#12608570)
Snowflake does have a relational database engine, it was actually founded by two Oracle engineers (who had worked at Oracle 15+ years)
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