What a disappointing piece of writing. Having worked with BigTable for several years at my previous gig I find the whole premise of NoSQL hilarious. BigTable re

What a disappointing piece of writing. Having worked with BigTable for several years at my previous gig I find the whole premise of NoSQL hilarious. BigTable really is a very specific solution to a very specific problem, creating a datastore that can feed massive mapreduces efficiently. Basically you have a design problem that nobody else is solving and you have the monetary resources and knowledge to solve it yourself. I'll be extremely delighted when the discussion starts revolving around how well a solution fits a specific problem as opposed to declaring one or the other solution inferior or superior. A single grading scale is not what a real engineer uses. For the record we use a "NoSQL" technology called flat files. Because our challenge is making sure the right workers have the right data in memory, not on disk.