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I mean NOSQL was hype with no substance but "you can scale more if you deal with not having ACID" is just generally true. Of course ACID scales to well into th

• smitty1e 3y ago
  "No substance" seems a bit harsh. They mostly seem a tarted up associative array, sure, but a key-value store is a thing.
  • mnky9800n 3y ago
    But don't you prefer your key value stores to be wearing red lipstick and a pushup bra?
  • threeseed 3y ago
    > but a key-value store is a thing DynamoDB underpins much of AWS which in turn underpins a ridiculous number of web services. So definitely more than just a thing.
  • rakoo 3y ago
    A naturally distributed key/value store. NoSQL wasn't a product, it was a radical rethinking of the balance between what we wanted and what we needed. Turns out some absolute necessities of using a RDBMS or even using SQL are not that important, and relaxing those actually-not-requirements allows massive scalability, something we desperately needed, or some evolved data structures and computation, like what redis provides.
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