by Angela Guess
A recent article discusses the growing influence of NoSQL solutions highlighted by the inaugural NoSQL Now! Conference this week in San Jose. The article states, “One of the more predictable things about any revolution is that one can never be quite sure what the outcome of the rebellion might actually wind up being. Clearly, there is a lot of unrest in the database world these days, which seems to be rallying around the “NoSQL” battle cry. But when you look at what exactly comprises this movement, you find a little bit of everything that is not an SQL database these days, including Hadoop, document databases such as CouchDB and Mongo and object-oriented databases.”
It continues, “Of these technologies, object-oriented databases have been around the longest. In fact, proponents of object-oriented databases fought their own war against SQL relational databases, which for the most part they soundly lost. But Robert Greene, vice president of technology for Versant, a provider of object-oriented database systems, sees the NoSQL movement, coupled with the advent of Big Data, creating new interest in object-oriented databases. At the NoSQL Now! Conference, Greene will make a case that the need for better performance when trying to manipulate Big Data will create a new demand for an alternative to Hadoop and other NoSQL formats.”
The article adds, “It’s too early to say where the NoSQL movement will lead. But it does seem apparent that the era when IT organizations could focus their data management efforts solely on SQL database technology, usually from a single vendor such as Oracle or IBM, is starting to come to a close. After all, IT today is all about applying the right tool to the right job. That may increase the level of complexity that needs to be managed, but it should also lead to better outcomes for the business.”
