On Mar 10, 9:26 am, Duncan Booth <duncan.bo...@invalid.invalid> wrote: > No, I'm saying that if you plan to build a business that could grow you > should be clear up front how you plan to handle the growth. It's too late > if you suddenly discover your platform isn't scalable just when you need to > scale it.
Right, but that doesn't seems to have any relevance about my point. Many says that scalability is key to NoSQL, i pointed out that unless you are like google, or ranked top 1000 in the world in terms data size, the scalability reason isn't that strong. Xah Lee wrote: > many people mentioned scalibility... though i think it is fruitful to > talk about at what size is the NoSQL databases offer better > scalability than SQL databases. > > For example, consider, if you are within world's top 100th user of > database in terms of database size, such as Google, then it may be > that the off-the-shelf tools may be limiting. But how many users > really have such massive size of data? note that google's need for > database today isn't just a seach engine. > > It's db size for google search is probably larger than all the rest of > search engine company's sizes combined. Plus, there's youtube (vid > hosting), gmail, google code (source code hosting), google blog, orkut > (social networking), picasa (photo hosting), etc, each are all ranked > within top 5 or so with respective competitors in terms of number of > accounts... so, google's datasize is probably number one among the > world's user of databases, probably double or triple than the second > user with the most large datasize. At that point, it seems logical > that they need their own db, relational or not. Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
