No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam

Re:No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam by fendale on Thursday July 02, 2009 @09:17AM (#684306)

> It happens with large RDBMS systems anyways after about 5GB of data, same type of scalability decisions have to be made.

I work every day with a > 4TB database and its all on 1 machine (a very big machine) with some very fast SAN. If you have money, Oracle can get very big on the right hardware. I am willing to bet MySQL or Postgres could do very well on that sort of hardware too.

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Re:No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam by drawkbox on Thursday July 02, 2009 @06:11PM (#685280)

True but scaling vertical is really a luxury, in most situations especially free to play or open systems for a certain level of usage, this is typically not economical. For a good vertical scaling strategy you need servers that reach into the tens or hundreds of thousands of $$.

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