IDG Contributor Network: Does 'share-nothing' NoSQL signal the end to system resources sharing?
Driven by the need to partition databases into independent data sets to facilitate concurrent data access, NoSQL databases have been at the forefront of the “share-nothing” resource movement. But if NoSQL’s share-nothing philosophy is correct, then how do you explain the explosive growth and acceptance of Linux containers that share resources on the same host and the clusters and data center operating systems that run over them?
On the surface, these two movements appear to be at odds, but a deeper look shows merits for both.
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