[duaneb]

The buzz around NoSQL is you don't have to worry about scaling the database. There are many, many more options now for e.g. multi-master, sharding, no-downtime copy-on-write migrations, etc., but just the idea of being able to run a tiny subset of queries or writes without having to worry about running out of resource capacity is a HUGE plus.

[plonh]

But having data corruption baked into the system design is shuge minus. Even the big shots at Google and Amazon are constantly firefighting data corruption in their NoSQL systems.

[duaneb]

I'm not quite sure what you're referring to. But at certain scales of data (petabytes, probably?) data corruption is inevitable. I do not know if they use ECC.