Interesting observation on MySQL

[ichabod801]

People talking about SQL being obsolete seem to be talking about big data. However, I'm not really impressed with big data, and most people don't have big data, so I think SQL still has a lot of uses. As Larz60+ demonstrates, SQL can also have problems with fast data, even if it doesn't get that big. But again, not everybody has or needs that kind of data.

Management at work is constantly asking us about being ready to get our big data on the cloud. We keep telling them we don't have big data. Our biggest data set would be NEISS, the usable part of which is maybe seven or eight million rows. That's not big data.