On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Patrick Kariuki <patrick.kariuki@gmail.com> wrote:

Makobu... tell me about it - I still don't get the joke in this
(http://browsertoolkit.com/fault-tolerance.png) cartoon :-)

Different solutions call for different problems....or is it the other
way round?

On 12/15/10, Makobu <makobu.mwambiriro@gmail.com> wrote:
> Been wrestling with BigTable for a while now because of appengine.
> Everything works fine till you need to implement a one-to-many or
> many-to-many relationship (no joins in NoSQL dbs). Heh.
>
> NoSQL is useful for massively distributed storage systems like Google's or
> AWS. I found the science in this

> document<http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable-osdi06.pdf>especially
> illuminating.
>
> Another useful link. <http://nosql-database.org/>

>
>
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Patrick Kariuki
> <patrick.kariuki@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> We discussed this a gazillion threads ago and I just noticed that
>> employers now consider knowledge on distributed non-relational
>> database systems as beneficial/advantageous for Perl/Python/PHP
>> Software Engineer positions.
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