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Introduction: This article not about Mariah Carey, or its song. It's about Storing System, Database. First let's describe what means by odds: In my social network, I found 93% of the mainstream developers sanctify the database, or at least consider it in any data persistence challenge as the ultimate, superhero, and undefeatable solution. I think this problem come from the education, personally, and some companies also I think it's involved in this. To start to fix this bad thinking, we all should agree in the following points: Every challenge have its own solutions, so whatever you want to save/persistent, there are always many solutions. For example the Web search engines, such as: Google, Kngine, Yahoo, Bing don't use database at all instead we use Indexes (Index file) for better performance. The Database in general whatever the vendor it's slow compared with other solutions such as: Key-Value storing system, Index file, DHT. The Database currently employ Relation Data model


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2 To start to fix this bad thinking, we all should agree in the following points: Every challenge have its own solutions, so whatever you want to save/persistent, there are always many solutions. [sent-5, score-0.181]

3 For example the Web search engines, such as: Google, Kngine, Yahoo, Bing don't use database at all instead we use Indexes (Index file) for better performance. [sent-6, score-0.391]

4 The Database in general whatever the vendor it's slow compared with other solutions such as: Key-Value storing system, Index file, DHT. [sent-7, score-0.176]

5 The Database currently employ Relation Data model, or Object relational data model, so don't convince yourself to save non-relation data into relation data model store system such as: Database. [sent-8, score-0.753]

6 The Database system architecture didn't changed very much in last 30 years, and it's content a lot of limits, and fails in its performance, scalability character. [sent-9, score-0.24]

7 If you don't believe me check out this papers: The End of an Architectural Era (It's Time for a Complete Rewrite) Dryad: Distributed Data-Parallel Programs from Sequential Building Blocks I hope if you agreed with me in the previous points. [sent-10, score-0.159]

8 In the other hand there many of scenarios should use Database, such as: Customer database, Address book, ERP, etc. [sent-13, score-0.174]

9 If you start agreed with me, you likely want ask: But what we can use beside or instead of Databases? [sent-15, score-0.408]

10 There are a lot of tools that fallowing CAP, BASE model, instead of ACID model. [sent-16, score-0.079]

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12 Availability: You can read and write and write your data all the time. [sent-26, score-0.281]

13 Partition Tolerance: If one or more nodes fails the system still works and becomes consistent when the system comes on-line. [sent-27, score-0.372]

14 Everyone who builds big applications builds them on CAP. [sent-30, score-0.226]

15 For example in any in-memory or in-disk caching system you will never need all the Database features. [sent-32, score-0.132]

16 Today there are a lot of: column oriented, and key-value oriented systems. [sent-34, score-0.388]

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18 This has advantages for databases such as data warehouses and library catalogues, where aggregates are computed over large numbers of similar data items. [sent-36, score-0.522]

19 This approach is contrasted with row-oriented databases and with correlation databases, which use a value-based storage structure. [sent-37, score-0.363]

20 Distributed key-value stores: Voldemort Dynomite Redis Distributed column stores (Bigtable-like systems): Cassandra Hbase Hypertable Something a little different: CouchDB Resource: Yahoo! [sent-39, score-0.358]


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