Two links on highly scalable databases

SQL Databases and Internet-Scale Applications: When you build web applications that have to scale up to millions of users, you sometimes end up questioning almost every aspect of your design as you hit scalability problems.

Where have all the good databases gone: Users of databases tend to ask for three very simple things:

• Dynamic Schema
• Dynamic Partioning of Data
• Modern Indexing

My message is to the Open Source community that has, so ably, built LAMP [...]. Please finish the job. Do for databases what you did for web servers. Give us dynamism and robustness. Give us systems that scale linearly, are flexible and dynamically reconfigurable and load balanced and easy to use.