Questions tagged [scalability]

It is often repeated that the Big Data problem is that relational databases can not scale to process the massive volumes of data that are now being created. But what are these scalability limitations that Big Data solutions like Hadoop are not bound…

I am curious of how one will scale huge database for example facebook DB. What I know is the application is deployed somehow to multiple data centers which means that each "node" in each data center should have fast access to that big DB. On first…

I am planning a for a database that i expect will be very big in terms of number of records rather than tables and batabases. My Question is what product (i.e, SQL 2008, Cassandra, Azure) handles scaling better? I expect that there will be 100k or…