Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease

Google Base Was Sort of Live. So Google is doing a simplified kind of database.

Why would they do that? I heard a talk with a Google engineer addressing the SQL crowd a while back, saying that a massively distributed, simplified database (no complex queries), using RSS as a data transport mechanism is the wave of the future.

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