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jbooth on Oct 29, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: NoSQL Took Away The Relational Model And Gave Noth...

Well, yeah, you can get some decent IOPS for 100k, but 20 servers with 4 spindles a piece are still more.

CrLf on Oct 30, 2010 [–]

You will also consume more power, and have 20 servers to manage instead of one, and you have to customize your data to be distributed between those 20 servers, hampering the possibility of querying that data for patterns that enable you to optimize your business.

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