[99s-extend] Riak in Farwest

[Lee Sylvester]

NoSQL is a trend, but is often not the best choice for data storage.  The reason it has had a strong revival recently (no, NoSQL is not a new thing) is because it is simpler for non-SQL developers to jump into and requires less thought on structuring your data.  However, there are many scenarios where NoSQL is a bad choice.  For example, I would certainly hope my bank doesn't log my transactions using NoSQL!

Lee




On 2 Aug 2013, at 16:25, Florent Gallaire <fgallaire at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Loïc Hoguin <essen at ninenines.eu> wrote:
>> Please tell us what you think makes Riak superior.
> 
> Riak is written in Erlang. See your own argumentations on why Erlang
> is the best langage to program high load/fault-tolerent web software.
> 
> Riak is written in Erlang, as all the 99 other soft -> good
> integration of the whole.
> 
> Riak is a NoSQL Dynamo database with Availability and Partition
> tolerance, and this is what I want for my web applications. PostgreSQL
> is a SQL Availability and Consistency old school database.
> 
> Riak is just what want a developer who use erlang to have a scaling platform.
> 
> Florent
> 
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