I thought I’d post this and go against the grain of all the recent “big data” hype. I like the presentation because it is more realistic and honest than I have seen lately.

Antony Falco, COO and Co-Founder of Basho, put this presentation together.  In it Antony talks frankly about the shift from traditional relational data storage to the NoSQL solutions such as Riak.

Here are my favorite quotes:

Would you trade …

• Your current familiar consistency for … a somewhat alien, but perfectly safe, consistency model and better availability
• Storage space for low latency
• late night heroics for high availability
• 35 years of RDMS success for technology used by a few companies of which you may have heard

If anyone makes these trafe-offs seem easy … they are lying!

Any new app must use this newfangled NoSQL

Remember at a small scale everything works … at a large scale, things start to break

I hope you enjoy the presentation as much as I did!

 

Thanks for taking the time to visit the weblog!

William Sharp

sharp@thedataqualitychronicle.org