Hi Santosh, Thanks for sharing your 2 cents! So if I understand your statements correctly, you are saying RBMS/SQL is the "silver-bullet" to all of our data related problems? I am extremely curious to know what kind of _real_ experiences with NoSQL led you to form your opinion about NoSQL in general?
p.s - I think NoSQL is a very generalized term. On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Santosh Rajan <santra...@gmail.com> wrote: > My 2 cents before you jump into the nosql bandwagon. > > 1) If sql works for you, stick with it. RDBMS's like postgeSQL, MySQL > will not wake you up in the middle of the night with a crash. > 2) If you have scaling problems, add some horse power to you hardware, > battery backed RAID, and solid state hard drives are good for you. > (Prices have come down in the last year or two). > 3) Disk space is cheap. Avoid joins while using sql as far as > possible. Create additional table to do your indexing and grouping. > 4) And if you still think you need nosql, god help you. > > > On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <nou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 12 2011, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > > >> On Sat, Feb 12 2011, Baiju M wrote: > >> > >>> I just started from home (Banashankari), will reach the meeting place > >>> (Domlur) aroud 4pm. > >> > >> [...] > >> > >> I'll be there slightly after 4. > > > > We had a fun little meeting. Sorted out some task for the getpython3 > > website and got a little bit done. > > > > As an aside, there was a lot of interest in noSQL databases. To all who > > are into it, there is a noSQL group in Bangalore that meets up roughly > > once a month http://groups.google.com/group/nosql-bangalore > > Do join it if you're interested. > > > > > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > > BangPypers mailing list > > BangPypers@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > > > > > -- > http://about.me/santosh.rajan > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > -- Thanks, Diptanu Choudhury Consultant, ThoughtWorks India Mobile - +91 9686602153 Web - www.linkedin.com/in/diptanu Twitter - @diptanu <http://twitter.com/diptanu> _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
