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Re:What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of T... by gregburd on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @01:09PM (#4224876)
You don't consider Amazon/S3 or Redis NoSQL databases?
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Re:What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of T... by pjscott on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @03:49PM (#4225770)
It's weird that things as different as S3 and Redis all fall under the umbrella of "NoSQL". We should probably replace the SQL-NoSQL dichotomy with terms that more accurately reflect the real differences.
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Re:What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of T... by jammmuel on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @03:33PM (#4225671)
Since when is S3 a 'database'?
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Re:What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of T... by philjohn on Wednesday July 11, 2012 @12:05PM (#4229811)
It's got an API, you can store data in it and retreive it later by key, since when was S3 not a database? It's a key/value store that lets you store very large values.
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Re:What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of T... by dclowd9901 on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @06:29PM (#4226595)
Not really a "distinctive" one (a la mongo, couch, etc.), but I see your point.
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