Distinctly amusing, of the rolling on the ground pounding my fists
sort of way.

Unfortunately, except for the barnyard references, it's a pretty much
accurate snapshot of the state of the industry. I can't even count the
number of times I've been asked, well, what is the developer wants to
use an impoverished, inconsistent data store?

"Uses hadoop" is almost a product requirement now.

On 9/8/2010 5:09 AM, Paul Ruizendaal wrote:
> Ann,
>
> Thanks for helping me understand the paper, and confirm my mental
> classification of it as 'yet another middleware serialiser". I'm not quite
> sure it is exactly VoltDB, but it comes close for sure.
>
> In the benchmark department, I'm sure Jim will like the following cartoon
> very much. I really like the bit about piping data to /dev/null. I don't
> know who made it, but it sounds like it was done by a mysql distributor:
> http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/1016320617/mongodb-is-web-scale#
>
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