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Tool picks2009-10-04 · Archive

SQL Databases Don't Scale

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“Replication and failover give you basic reliability, but it's very limited and inflexible compared to a real distributed datastore with master-master replication, partition tolerance, consensus …”

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SQL Databases Don't Scale

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