Thursday, December 26, 2013

ACID and Eventual Consistency hoopla

We don't care if it takes a while for our post to show up on a blog or a social media outlet, but what about our balance in our bank account?

Good article on that topic linked to here:
http://bitmason.blogspot.com/2013/12/relearning-past-lessons.html

It is interesting after playing around with Cassandra's command line tool and how much it reminds you of SQL.  The fact that Cassandra allows you to tweak the consistency level is what you want I would think.

I think Relational is not what we always need.