Subscribe to RSS RSS

The Elastic DBMS Blog

March 5, 2011

The weather and database elasticity

If you were designing or managing a web site, would you like to be referred to in this way?

Transit system Web site crashes put officials on defensive, webmaster in doghouse

That is exactly what happened to the officials at the MBTA (the transit system in Boston). [...]

database, elasticity, MBTA, outage | Permalink | 0 Comments

February 15, 2011

In the aftermath of a revolution

The recent unrest in the Middle-East is highlighting a particular weakness of relational databases; the fact that they are inelastic.

Consider this, in January, activists in Egypt call for an uprising in their country. The world watches, and follows the news on the internet. One place a lot of people looked at was Al-Jazeera.This put a real strain on the databases that powered this site. [...]

al-jazeera, drupal, egypt revolution, elasticity | Permalink | 0 Comments

Take the next step