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qhoxie on Aug 5, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: NoSQL: If only it was that easy

So don't people just publish client libs that handle the details for you?

Sometimes, but oftentimes sharding issues are unique enough that they require custom solutions when the backend technology does not support it natively.

davidw on Aug 5, 2009 [–]

And these sharding issues don't happen with the things he marks as "scales!"?

qhoxie on Aug 5, 2009 | [–]

That is correct. Things like S3 can expand without issue, and others like Voldemort handle partitioning data natively.

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