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The Voice of the DBA NoSQL Is Not Everywhere

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Sep 20, 2010 NoSQL Is Not Everywhere

How many places really use NoSQL? Facebook, one of the largest sites on the Internet, has had their Cassandra database service receive a lot of press over the last year. In pointing to them as an example, many technologists use the argument that if Facebook uses Cassandra to run their extremely data intensive business, then it ought to be good enough for the rest of us.

Cassandra might be great for your business, but is it the best choice? How does that argument apply when Microsoft.com, also one of the largest web sites in the world, serves millions of users a day with SQL Server as the back end? Twitter also uses an RDBMS to store it's tweets. It uses the MySQL database, an RDBMS, though they are investigating and integrating Cassandra in places.

Read the rest of "NoSQL Is Not Everywhere" at SQLServerCentral.