I was talking to a developer of a cloud-deployed application (hi Patrick, love that BrowserMob.com!) and our design discussions quickly focused on money. SimpleDB is great for high-transaction rate storage, but it’s too dang expensive for reporting. A special-purpose database just for reporting makes sense. It’s worth extra programming to reduce operational costs (the classic capex/opex tradeoff familiar to telecom engineers).
(Link: Why NoSQL Now?)
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February 1, 2010

#NoSQL – Brent Sordyl’s blog » Why NoSQL Now? http://ow.ly/16tjJD
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