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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Links of the Day - 2010/07/07

Links of the day for July 07, 2010

• Introduction to NoSQL and Cassandra (and Outbrain) - Well I thought it rather convienent that since we use Outbrain here at NoSQLDatabases.com that we talk about their usage of NoSQL.
• Cassandra technical overview - Nicely written technical overview of Cassandra.
• Riptano, and Cassandra Adoption - Post that discusses Riptano the commercial support entity for the Cassandra data store. Also discusses some adoption stats of Cassandra.