How and Why Glue is Using Amazon SimpleDB instead of a Relational Database
The scalability issues that exist with Relational Databases are not accidental. The problem is not just that of scale, but the way of thinking about the data. Relational Databases are designed to think about data in terms of entities and relationships, but for our problem we need a database that scales by focusing on how to partition the data into independent chunks. This is exactly what new distributed storage systems are designed to do…
