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[Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/17/2012 06:08 PM, Everett Toews wrote:
> Setting aside any SQL/NoSQL religious debate or even the "best tool for
> the job" argument, I think you'd find this to be a hard sell to the
> operations crowd. Nobody is going to want to have all of their OpenStack
> data in an SQL DB (which they may have already gone through the trouble
> to make HA) but then have just the quota data in a NoSQL DB.
> 
> I would urge you to consider starting with SQL and then make NoSQL an
> option if there is demand for it.

I think both SQL and NoSQL solutions are warranted. Kevin, you could
take the approach that Keystone does and have SQL and KVS drivers...

Best,
-jay