What an incredible piece of shit. SCREWDRIVERS POORLY SUITED FOR DRIVING NAILS! FILM AT 11! Right tool for the job. The right tool for accessing half a peta

What an incredible piece of shit. SCREWDRIVERS POORLY SUITED FOR DRIVING NAILS! FILM AT 11! Right tool for the job. The right tool for accessing half a petabyte of data on unreliable Xeon-based servers in bakery racks is NOT a distributed database. MapReduce... is. Oh, and one last thing -- he should be comparing BigTable with a standard RDBMS if he wanted to have so much as a single shred of credibility. Google uses traditional RDBMSes internally -- but not for the heavy lifting of indexing and caching. Because an RDBMS is a shitty tool for that job. That's one reason why the founders are rich as all get out -- they didn't worry about which tourniquet to use while the patient bled out. Stupid fucking religious wars.