With the onset of my career, RDBMS had been an integral part of all my application development and rightfully so. It was the natural choice for single or multi tiered-architecture till I joined AOL in 2001. Having worked extensively on Sybase, Oracle, SQL Server in the late 90s and not remembering the volume of traffic it served, I can say it pretty much served the need. Only in 2001 when I saw AOL Yellowpages not withstand the traffic with DB2, Read the rest of this entry »