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Re:MongoDB Raises $150 Million at $1.2 Billion Valuation by wmf on Friday October 04, 2013 @12:22PM (#6496268)
The entire point is to go fast; denormalization is a tool, not an end in itself. If, hypothetically (ahem), a database could scale and support joins, why not?
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Re:MongoDB Raises $150 Million at $1.2 Billion Valuation by MichaelGG on Friday October 04, 2013 @08:08PM (#6498836)
Using partitioning like VoltDB allows you to keep joins. I think Google's Spanner/F1 partitioning/relation scheme also allows joins.
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