• March 13

QCon London 2009: Database projects to watch closely

Presenting solutions such as Google’s BigTable and Amazon Dynamo, Magnusson said that distributed databases allow us to manage huge data volumes (BigTable is designed for petabyte tables) but issues of high availability while distributing across a number of systems bring a set of requirements that often requires the solution to diverge from the relational model and lean more towards key-value or document stores.

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