Re:Umbra: an ACID-compliant database built for in-memory ana...
by bradleyjg on Sunday January 26, 2020 @05:28PM
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> can handle most workloads.
They really shine for read heavy workflows that can tolerate a stale read every once in a while. If on top of that you have reasonable shard-ability you get near infinite scalability.
While that might cover a large portion of the database usage landscape, I'd hesitate to call it most. There's a reason OLTP was coined as an acronym--it's a pattern that comes up a fair bit.
They really shine for read heavy workflows that can tolerate a stale read every once in a while. If on top of that you have reasonable shard-ability you get near infinite scalability.
While that might cover a large portion of the database usage landscape, I'd hesitate to call it most. There's a reason OLTP was coined as an acronym--it's a pattern that comes up a fair bit.