Database choice for large data volume?

Question

I\'m about to start a new project which should have a rather large database.

The number of tables will not be large (<15), majority of data (99%) will be contain

Answer 1

Some interesting points regarding Google BigTable in there are...

Bigtable Vs DBMS

• Fast Query rate
• No Joins, No SQL support, column-oriented database
• Uses one Bigtable instead of having many normalized tables
• Is not even in 1NF in a traditional view
• Designed to support historical queries timestamp field => what did this webpage look like yesterday ?
• Data compression is easier –rows are sparse

I highlighted the Joins and No SQL Support as you mentioned you will need to run a series of reports. I dont know how much (if any) not having the abililty to do this will have on you running reports if you where to use this.