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No Handwaving Away the DBA
FromVoice of the DBA
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Length:
3 minutes
Released:
May 8, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
There's a great quote I read, at the end of this article. It says: "...if you think that switching to NoSQL will just let you hand-wave away all of the challenges of running a database, you are terribly misguided." The context is that all too often people looking to move away from some of the hassles of working with RDBMS platforms, which includes working with the DBA, haven't completely thought through the issues.
I do think NoSQL has a place in the world. There are domains of problems that I'm sure Riak, MongoDB, and others, solve in a more efficient way than SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, and other relational systems. I'm not sure what they are, and to some extent, I haven't seen good guidance on where particular platforms excel. Most of the articles and pieces on choosing NoSQL seem to be trying to sell me "why a particular platform can replace my other one", and telling me to add in things like transactions, but not explaining the drawbacks.
Read the rest of "No Handwaving Away the DBA" at SQLServerCentral.
I do think NoSQL has a place in the world. There are domains of problems that I'm sure Riak, MongoDB, and others, solve in a more efficient way than SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, and other relational systems. I'm not sure what they are, and to some extent, I haven't seen good guidance on where particular platforms excel. Most of the articles and pieces on choosing NoSQL seem to be trying to sell me "why a particular platform can replace my other one", and telling me to add in things like transactions, but not explaining the drawbacks.
Read the rest of "No Handwaving Away the DBA" at SQLServerCentral.
Released:
May 8, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
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