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Re:It's Time to Drop the "F" Bomb - or "Lies, Damn Lies, and... by mmalone on Wednesday May 11, 2011 @08:24PM (#2539013)
BigTable enforces integrity constraints defined by a schema on a per-row basis? This is interesting news. Why hasn't Google included this information in any of the published materials describing the system?

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Re:It's Time to Drop the "F" Bomb - or "Lies, Damn Lies, and... by haberman on Wednesday May 11, 2011 @08:42PM (#2539059)
What about this story is inspiring people to write smarmy comments and sign them with silly pseudonyms?

Bigtable itself doesn't provide a schema or constraints, but it provides primitives that would allow you to implement them AFAICS. That's why I mentioned the idea of implementing a MySQL backend that uses BigTable as its storage -- MySQL would contain the schema and constraint logic, BigTable would provide the sequentially-consistent data storage.

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