Before you decide you want a "Big Data" solution

I thought I'd post this and go against the grain of all the recent "big data" hype. I like the presentation because it is more realistic and honest than I have seen lately.

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Antony Falco, COO and Co-Founder of Basho, put this presentation together.  In it Antony talks frankly about the shift from traditional relational data storage to the NoSQL solutions such as Riak.

Here are my favorite quotes:

Would you trade ...

• Your current familiar consistency for ... a somewhat alien, but perfectly safe, consistency model and better availability


• Storage space for low latency


• late night heroics for high availability


• 35 years of RDMS success for technology used by a few companies of which you may have heard

If anyone makes these trafe-offs seem easy ... they are lying!

Any new app must use this newfangled NoSQL

Remember at a small-scale everything works ... at a large-scale, things start to break

I hope you enjoy the presentation as much as I did!