What Lies Ahead?

Big names in the industry are using NOSQL implementations today. Some primary examples are BigTable from Google, Cassandra from Facebook and Dynamo from Amazon. In fact, many of the Web 2.0 leaders have moved away from their MySQL implementations in favor of NOSQL systems, primarily for speed and scalability. Twitter and Digg have recently made such announcements. These applications are write-intensive, have real-time access requirements and must be able to dynamically scale to meet the needs of a worldwide user base processing potentially hundreds of millions of records each day. Read more...