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		wmf on Oct 4, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MongoDB Raises $150 Million at $1.2 Billion Valuat... The entire point is to go fast; denormalization is a tool, not an end in itself. If, hypothetically (ahem), a database could scale and support joins, why not?

MichaelGG on Oct 5, 2013 [–]

Using partitioning like VoltDB allows you to keep joins. I think Google's Spanner/F1 partitioning/relation scheme also allows joins.

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