Big Data: The Battle Over Persistence and the Race for Access Hill

Article originally published by DBTA.

The Battle Over Persistence is somewhat of a ‘holy war’ between the data consistency inherently derived from a singu­lar data store and the performance derived from data stores optimized for specific work­loads.

Shifting gears into a new era has never been easy during the transition. Only in hindsight do we clearly see what was right in front of