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A comment on Project Voldemort: A Distributed Database.

Re:Project Voldemort: A Distributed Database by whakojacko on Thursday January 27, 2011 @03:46PM (#2149394)
"Database" isn't entirely correct, its a distributed K/V store. Maybe its just me, but the word database implies a lot of additional functionality that Voldemort doesn't have.
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Re:Project Voldemort: A Distributed Database by j_baker on Thursday January 27, 2011 @04:07PM (#2149479)
According to wikipedia:

A database is a system intended to organize, store, and retrieve large amounts of data easily.

I don't think calling Voldemort is wholly inaccurate, but I suppose you could make the case that it doesn't do the system justice due to the connotation of the word database (which usually makes people think of a SQL database).

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Re:Project Voldemort: A Distributed Database by face on Thursday January 27, 2011 @04:49PM (#2149649)
Perhaps you are thinking of a "Relational Database"?
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Re:Project Voldemort: A Distributed Database by sophacles on Thursday January 27, 2011 @05:27PM (#2149804)
Maybe he was thinking of querying by values? My (admittedly cursory) examination of this suggests I must know the key and only the key to get a value. To me a database is searchable.
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