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This is a Google cache link to an Oracle whitepaper on NoSQL databases that jakewins posted to the programming subreddit. On page 13 the paper asks "Do you really want to be contributing to an open source effort?".



That entire paragraph (paper?) is an interesting bit of FUD:

>>The NoSQL database has been sponsored by large internet companies. Such sponsorship has added credibility to internet scale claims of the databases and an aura of "coolness." The large internet companies have been motivated by having free database software that is under their complete control. These companies have hired top developers for their scalable database implementations and to keep them running. Is your company prepared to make such an investment in an area which is not your company's core competence? Do you really want to be contributing to an open source effort? Do you really want to bet your project on something that's on the bleeding edge? Do you want to build the superstar team required to make the NoSQL vision a reality? You are not Google.


That point falls short. There are companies (such as ours) that provide fully integrated NoSQL software and you don't have to worry about any details.

In addition, I'd say that any reasonably-sized database requires full-time engineers to get decent performances (DBA in the case of Oracle).


You are not Google.

Google employees surely got a good chuckle out of that paragraph.




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