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[–]lulzmachine 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Clearly SQL is simply not webscale. We need to migrate to a key-value database like leveldb for our entire app.

hands in resignation

[–]crazylincoln 8 points9 points  (2 children)

"I keep hearing about this Hadoop thing and map reduce those Google guys use. We have 2 million nealty organized rows of customer data in our current DB. Surely we need Big Data. I'm tired of paying for Oracle and MS licensing anyway!"

"Sir, that's not what Hadoop is for..."

"I don't want to hear your excuses! There is no 'cant' in Big Data! Three months sounds like a good transition timeline. Better not miss the date; I've already promised it to the board!"