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Moving fast and breaking things in the database world is not a good thing. That said... I highly doubt collection level locking will take too long. I don't see anyone nipping at th…

I totally agree there are a lot of big apps running on Sparc... but I think that it would be much cheaper to buy new x86 hardware for a all products/systems going forward (i.e., th…

Indeed you can distribute data to multiple independent RDBMS, but balancing when new nodes are added is probably a manual process (or a lot of custom code) that is likely to requir…

With MongoDB, you are able to shard your system. This means you can grow your databases horizontally. This is not something you can easily (or cheaply) do in the world of RDBMS. Yo…

I just uploaded another one for you: https://mms.10gen.com/static/images/mms1.png There are actually a lot more charts available, but this gives you a hint of what is available.

Riak isn't in the same ballpark as MongoDB. They are closer to Hadoop.