title: SQL Server vs. NoSQL
body: <p>So I have a website that could eventually get some pretty high traffic. My DB implementation is in SQL Server 2008 at the moment. I really only have 2 tables and a few stored procs. Most of the DB could be re-designed to work without joining (although it wouldn't make sense when I can join so easily within SQL Server).</p>
  
  <p>I heard that sites like Digg and Facebook use NoSQL databases for a lot of their basic data access. Is this something worth looking into, or will SQL Server not really slow me down that bad?</p>
  
  <p>I use paging on my site (although this might change in the future), and I also use AJAX'd data access for most of the "live" stuff, so it doesn't really seem to be a performance hindrance at the moment, but I'm afraid it will be as the data starts expanding exponentially.</p>
  
  <p>Am I going to gain a lot of performance my moving to NoSQL? Honestly, right now I don't even completely understand NoSQL, so any tips on <em>how</em> this will help me improve the better.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks guys.</p>