The Disruptive Value of Distributed Key-Value Stores
Martin Schneider (Basho):
Organizations with specific needs best met by a platform like Riak could save a company:
- Millions of dollars in oracle license/maintenance
- Hundreds of thousands a year in BI system license/maintenance
- Up to hundreds of thousands in sys-admin salary/overhead
This sounds correct in theory. But the last couple of Oracle databases I’ve seen were:
- serving multiple applications
- sharing data between applications
- used for generating tens/hundreds of reports
So, the online storage/OLTP costs equation to beat is:
licenses + operational costs + “data integration costs” + etl + reporting « licenses + operational costs
Original title and link: The Disruptive Value of Distributed Key-Value Stores (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)
