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My Thoughts on the NoSQL Database “Tea Party” Post

March 9th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Without a doubt, the most controversial post I’ve written on this blog was last month’s The Database Tea Party: The NoSQL Movement. I know this both from the comment stream, but also from the volume and tenor of emails I received from friends and colleagues over the past few weeks. The first thing I learned [...]

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Tags: NoSQL · RDBMS · Stonebraker · XML · XML database · XQuery · relational database

Thoughts on Category Creation and Information Access Platforms [Revised]

August 2nd, 2008 · 6 Comments

[Revised 8/2/08; still working on cleaning up this consciousness stream.] Back in the old days, it seemed easy to create a category in software. Look at the database market, for example: IBM invents the relational DBMS (RDBMS) category Oracle, Ingres, and Informix enter in a largely undifferentiated way, though Informix eventually drifts towards the low-end/cheap [...]

The End of an Architectural Era

October 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

I picked up via this post on the High Scalability Blog a new paper by Michael Stonebraker, Nabil Hachem, and Pat Helland entitled The End of an Era (It’s Time for a Complete Rewrite) presented at the VLDB 2007 conference in Austria on September 23rd through 27th. From the paper’s summary: “In the last quarter [...]

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Tags: Stonebraker · special-purpose DBMS