The consistency, reliability and availability is just not there yet to think about OLTP applications running on top of a NoSQL database.

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Our current respondents had a well-distributed mix of applications, with databases (orange) and OLTP (blue) indicated by 63% of the responses, and other applications dividing the rest, as shown Figure 1.

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