by Angela Guess
Dwight Merriman, co-author of MongoDB predicted at the NoSQL Now! Conference that NoSQL usage will increase substantially in coming years. According to the article, “Enterprise needs are expanding beyond what OLTP and business intelligence systems can accommodate, Merriman explained. ‘We need something, though, for some of these scale problems and you can’t solve them with the existing architectures. We’d also like something that better fits writing code today,’ with object orientation and agile development methodologies becoming more prominent, said Merriman.”
The article adds, “The nonrelational NoSQL bucket meets the need for a backing store for Web application servers, content management systems, structured event logging, server-side storage for mobile applications, and document storage, Merriman said. NoSQL databases do online data processing and storage and manipulation but do not support complex, transactional semantics, such as what an Oracle database does. NoSQL is defined at the nosql-database.org website as next-generation databases that are nonrelational, horizontally scalable, distributed, and open source. They were originally intended to serve as modern Web-scale databases.”
See the video of Dwight Merriman’s keynote at NoSQL Now! here.
photo credit: Patrick Swint
