It’s hard to believe that Microsoft is 41 years old. In that time, its had its ups (think Windows XP with around one billion sales) and its downs (think Windows ME, which lasted for less than 18 months). But one thing that’s clear is Microsoft has cleverly re-invented itself, re-booted and disrupted its own business in a massive way. Some would argue Microsoft is now “cool” again.
Month: June 2017
Relational Databases
We were hiring developers for a large, complicated application. I happened to mention to one of the more promising candidates that the application was fairly write-heavy and we might experience some performance concerns later. This developer, with years of experience and skills across multiple technologies that might have been of use to us, replied “you’re going to either need to shard your database or switch to NoSQL.”
That was enough to guarantee they didn’t get the job.
Before relational databases, all databases were NoSQL. That’s why we have relational databases.
Auxiliary Memory - Mark Romeo's Oracle Blog 