Which is pretty nice... beyond the language of SQL, relational databases that support full ACID compliance are important for a lot of scenarios. Usually you have to sacrifice a portion of that in order to scale horizontally, or when a single system can no longer keep up.
There's been enormous progress in database reasoning the past decade or so, as more companies have needed to reach the scale of Facebook, Twitter, Google, Amazon and others... Not every instance needs that level of scale, but many businesses are also trying to reach very high levels of availability, which is an issue with similar solutions.
There's been enormous progress in database reasoning the past decade or so, as more companies have needed to reach the scale of Facebook, Twitter, Google, Amazon and others... Not every instance needs that level of scale, but many businesses are also trying to reach very high levels of availability, which is an issue with similar solutions.