Do you need ACID transaction compliance

For those that didn't know, JPMorgan Chase had some issues with their website recently. It has been suggested that the cause of the outage was a database that stored user profile information. As a result, of what some might consider a minor piece, of the overall architecture took the whole site down. The folks at DBMS2 have an interesting take on the situation.

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Scaling ACID compliant databases without using NoSQL

Scaling an ACID-compliant relational database? But that's really hard to do! What if I told you someone thinks it's possible. What implications would that have on NoSQL technologies? It's an interesting question and one that might need answering sooner than you think after this post by Daniel Adabi, an assistant professor at Yale, and Alexander Thomson a 2nd-year PhD student at Yale.

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