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by unclebucknasty 4838 days ago
But it does not appear to be used for the financial transaction component, so its use should not be able to cause inconsistencies in account balances, etc.
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For a moment there, it seemed we were witnessing what http://www.mongodb-is-web-scale.com/ had prophesied:

"Now I've contracted hemorragic e-coli from cleaning cow stalls and I'm bleeding out my asshole. I'll be dead soon, but that is a welcome relief. I will never have to witness the collapse of the world economy because NoSQL radicals talked financial institutions into abandoning perfectly good datastores because they didn't support distributed fucking map/reduce."