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		dasht on Sept 30, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Michael Stonebraker: Why Enterprises Are Uninteres... I think a lot of the comments here (not all) display a relative naivete about what is meant by ACID and why the physical / logical separation of SQL is vital to the point about ad hoc queries. It's ironic because some of those comments complain about enterprise types not knowing about NoSQL while, at the same time, the comment makers seem to not (really) know about SQL RDBMS systems.

mmt on Oct 1, 2010 [–]

I, too, have found this to be the general case.

I speculate that this is because they consider MySQL to be the archetype RDBMS. I have yet to run into such depth of misconception from those who work with Postgres.

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