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or u work in an enterprise
by mikesabbagh 6y ago
or u work in an enterprise
- closeparen 6y agoIf every one of Walmart’s 2.1 million employees used an enterprise system every day, that system would be less than 1% the scale of Snapchat (250 million DAUs). Internet scale and enterprise scale are completely different animals.
- funcDropShadow 6y agoBut Snapchat, as most web-scale companies, doesn't care whether a single operation gets lost and whether a small number of user have data loss. Whereas Walmart, at least, should care whether every single employee got his salary or whether the taxes for him were booked properly. Therefore a lot of "solutions" of so-called web-scale companies are to naive for an enterprise.
- emodendroket 6y agoAll the more reason that a traditional SQL database is well suited for many enterprise applications.
- jeltz 6y agoMost of the databases at big enterprises are tiny. Just because the company is big does not mean every department of it handles tons of data.