The other day I noticed a taxonomy used on one of the NoSQL Database blogs that went like this: Types of NoSQL systems Core NoSQL Systems Wide column stores Document stores Key-value / tuple stores Eventually consistent key-value stores Graph databases Soft NoSQL Systems (not the original intention …) Object databases Grid database solutions XML [...]
Entries Tagged as 'special-purpose DBMS'
Yes, Virginia, MarkLogic is a NoSQL System
April 11th, 2010 · 8 Comments
Tags: Hadoop · MapReduce · Michael Stonebraker · NoSQL · Open source · RDBMS · SQL · Uncategorized · XML · XML database · XQuery · database management systems · information infrastrutcure · relational database · semi-structured data · special-purpose DBMS · unstructured data
Stonebraker: Send Relational DBMSs to the Home for Tired Software
July 2nd, 2009 · 3 Comments
Mike Stonebraker spoke today at SIGMOD (see Tweetstream) where, among other things there was a 40-year anniversary celebration of the relational DBMS and, in what I suspect is non-coincidental timing, Mike did a post on the CACM site entitled The End of a DBMS Era (Might be Upon Us). Excerpt: Moreover, the code line from [...]
Tags: relational database · special-purpose DBMS
The New Phone Book’s Here: Mark Logic Mentioned in Forrester DBMS Wave
July 1st, 2009 · No Comments
One of my favorite movie scenes comes from the otherwise-average film, The Jerk, with Steve Martin. Script excerpt: Navin R. Johnson: The new phone book’s here! The new phone book’s here! Harry Hartounian: Boy, I wish I could get that excited about nothing. Navin R. Johnson: Nothing? Are you kidding? Page 73 – Johnson, Navin [...]
Tags: Forrester · special-purpose DBMS
IEEE Data Engineering Special XQuery Edition
December 26th, 2008 · No Comments
Database, search, and information management geeks should check out the IEEE Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering Special Issue on XQuery, which includes an article by by Mark Logic‘s own Mary Holstege, PhD entitled Big, Fast XQuery: Enabling Content Applications. From the editor-in-chief’s introduction: The database community has witnessed, over the past several [...]
Tags: Mark Logic · XML · XML server · XQuery · native XML · special-purpose DBMS
The Demise of Closed-Source RDBMSs?
December 18th, 2007 · No Comments
A friend pointed me to this interesting post by Allan Packer of Sun entitled Are Proprietary Databases Doomed? Overall, I think it’s a well done analysis of the DBMS market and well worth reading. First, a nit. When I was a lad, “proprietary” didn’t mean “closed source“, it meant proprietary (i.e., vendor controlled) interface. For [...]
Tags: relational database · special-purpose DBMS · strategy
