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Apparently there are people in tech young enough now to not remember the age of NoSQL!
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The amazing thing is that NoSQL said that SQL couldn‘t scale horizontally because of the CAP theorem and then SQL said „hold my beer“ and not only did they lessen consistency requirements to scale (AWS Aurora etc.), they also used rack mounted atomic clocks to do both.
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Rack mounted atomic clocks you say? research.google/pubs/pub39966/
Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database
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I can‘t believe that paper is 11 years old…