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Vertical Scaling vs. Horizontal Scaling for the Non-technical listener

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The Advantages of Horizontal Scaling

There's no loss saying you can't have a polygot or a hybrid environment whereby you have your indexes. So if you do need to know, give me all the patients that are within 50 miles of this particular hospital, then that's easy to do in a relational world. You don't need to load up the relational database with every single attribute of the patient. That, that relational database effectively becomes your index into the Mongo or the Cassandra or the Hado to go and get the richer object back out again. Well, that's so, so at that point, you're talking about some fairly sophisticated application development. And I think see that. Most people are writing some piece of software

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