Re:No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam
by fauigerzigerk on Thursday July 02, 2009 @03:17AM
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I agree, the article is really sloppy, a typical piece of journalism I would say.
I just want to add that column stores are not in any way anti SQL. They don't change the data model at all. They're just a different implementation of the relational model, more suitable for analytics than row stores. For OLTP apps they're bad. Reconstructing one row isn't necessarily expensive (as column stores don't just store individual columns), but writing one row is expensive.
I just want to add that column stores are not in any way anti SQL. They don't change the data model at all. They're just a different implementation of the relational model, more suitable for analytics than row stores. For OLTP apps they're bad. Reconstructing one row isn't necessarily expensive (as column stores don't just store individual columns), but writing one row is expensive.