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Color me surprised: No NoSQL? Instagram seems to be a prime candidate for such a storage method.

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• gregburd 14y ago
  You don't consider Amazon/S3 or Redis NoSQL databases?
  • jammmuel 14y ago
    Since when is S3 a 'database'?
    • philjohn 14y ago
      It's got an API, you can store data in it and retreive it later by key, since when was S3 not a database? It's a key/value store that lets you store very large values.
  • pjscott 14y ago
    It's weird that things as different as S3 and Redis all fall under the umbrella of "NoSQL". We should probably replace the SQL-NoSQL dichotomy with terms that more accurately reflect the real differences.
  • dclowd9901 14y ago
    Not really a "distinctive" one (a la mongo, couch, etc.), but I see your point.
• brendoncrawford 14y ago
  They use Redis.
• timaelliott 14y ago
  Redis is a key-value store. S3 is a distributed file system. Can we stop labeling the set of "not a rdbms" data storage mechanisms with the stupid fucking "NoSQL" moniker.
  • skeletonjelly 14y ago
    To be fair I've hardly seen an article on the benefits of NoSQL on the frontpage for a while.
    • gaius 14y ago
      First it was No SQL. Then it was Not Only SQL. Then it was, we have to get some real work done, Need Our SQL.