No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam

News Type: Other — Seeded on Thu Jul 2, 2009 8:16 PM EDT

Article Source: Computerworld

technology, open-source, java, sql, nosql

The meet-up in San Francisco last month had a whiff of revolution about it, like a latter-day techie version of the American Patriots planning the Boston Tea Party.

The inaugural get-together of the burgeoning NoSQL community crammed 150 attendees into a meeting room at CBS Interactive.

Like the Patriots, who rebelled against Britain's heavy taxes, NoSQLers came to share how they had overthrown the tyranny of slow, expensive relational databases in favor of more efficient and cheaper ways of managing data.

"Relational databases give you too much. They force you to twist your object data to fit a RDBMS [relational database management system]," said Jon Travis, principal engineer at Java toolmaker SpringSource, one of the 10 presenters at the NoSQL confab (PDF).

NoSQL-based alternatives "just give you what you need," Travis said.

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It should be noted that the people interviewed for this article do not deny that SQL is powerful and useful. They are championing NoSQL storage solutions because they do not need the myriad of tools used by SQL, allowing them to speed up data retrieval.

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#1 - Thu Jul 2, 2009 8:20 PM EDT

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Man, those guys are working with huge amounts of data!

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#2 - Fri Jul 3, 2009 5:31 AM EDT

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