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There's more than one way to skin a mongoose and in this case the more common shard solutions are fundamentally different from distributed DB in that a distributed DB often times c…

I beg to differ; the company I'm at now had SAN representatives saying that they've never seen a non-SAN DB push as many IOPS as ours was before we started exploring scalability so…

Maybe you should ask Google... they seem to be doing pretty well with commodity hardware and something's telling me that they've got better reliability, higher efficiency and lower…

Most of the things he mentions apply to most DB engines, MySQL, MS-SQL, Postgres, Firebird and many editions of Oracle (all of which I've used in data-intensive applications) suffe…

http://incubator.apache.org/cassandra/

Oh, it may also be worth noting that engineers and administrators would have to change their way of thinking in all this too, which doesn't affect some too much, but may have a bit…

For future reference, cold hard facts are much more useful than posting your resume. I'm not trying to say you're unqualified or unintelligent in any way, just that rationalizing a…