One of the biggest killer-arguments in favour of NoSQL databases is that they are supposed to natively scale horizontally, unlike traditional relational databases. Personally, I believe that you still have to be an excellent architect, in order to actually take advantage of this "native feature" of some NoSQL databases. You can still design a system … Continue reading A success story of SQL scaling horizontally
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Google Cloud SQL, the next step for jOOQ?
"The Cloud" is probably the biggest IT buzzword in 2011. It may as well be as meaningless and as short-lived as its predecessors "web 2.0" and "dotcom", but clearly, the big companies are aiming for "The Cloud" right now. After Microsoft's all-out marketing campaign for Windows Azure and its sub-product SQL Azure, there is now … Continue reading Google Cloud SQL, the next step for jOOQ?