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> where you gain flexibility and get the scaling for free. Is it really for free? While I tend to agree with your point, one of the wrinkles here is that the
by timf 15y ago
> where you gain flexibility and get the scaling for free.
Is it really for free? While I tend to agree with your point, one of the wrinkles here is that the older SQL systems have been beaten to death in production. We've had all sorts of 'little problems' with some of these newer systems. And this is not just about runtime issues, the 'hardened product' benefits reveal themselves in more secondary things like education, troubleshooting, monitoring, add-on products, and backup.
- cultureulterior 15y ago>older SQL systems have been beaten to death in production But they haven't. SQL Multi-master replication systems with no single points of failure really aren't that common, and that's what everyone really wants. Everything else imposes huge production costs.
- timf 15y agoI did not say what is offered is equivalent and no that is not "what everyone really wants".