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The "old way" was sacrificing functionality such as transactions and joins to get scalability (BigTable, DynamoDB). Google tried that a decade ago and found it

by u320 10y ago

The "old way" was sacrificing functionality such as transactions and joins to get scalability (BigTable, DynamoDB). Google tried that a decade ago and found it lacking, this is why Spanner exists in the first place.

jedberg 10y ago
Well, I'd say the "old way" is SQL with joins and schemas and transactions, and the "new way" is KV with eventual consistency.
- rrdharan 10y ago
  Chronologically, we have: SQL -> NoSQL -> NewSQL You're both right.