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Enthusiasts Convene To Say No To SQL, Hash Out New DB Breed

Posted by timothy on from the sql-like-a-pig dept.

ericatcw writes "The inaugural NoSQL meet-up in San Francisco during last month's Yahoo! Apache Hadoop Summit had a whiff of revolution about it, like a latter-day techie version of the American Patriots planning the Boston Tea Party. Like the Patriots, who rebelled against Britain's heavy taxes, NoSQLers came to share how they had overthrown the tyranny of burdensome, expensive relational databases in favor of more efficient and cheaper ways of managing data, reports Computerworld."

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  1. Been there, done that already! by itsybitsy · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Dah! Everyone with any technical skills has known for many decades that relational database are junk. Sure they do a particular job but then so does a swiss army knife but you'd not use it to cut a forest down you'd get a proper volume tool and nothing beats object databases with a simple file structure. Flat files are great too however they tend to require extra parsing slowing things down. You can roll your own object database system easily even with full on transactions and concurrency support in under a man month. Death to Relational Databases.

    1. Re:Been there, done that already! by itsybitsy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      [meta]How the heck can the parent comment be flame bait? You have a posting about a "new" anti-sql approach that has been done N times before where N is a very large number being passed off as "new" and then you don't like a comment that point that out? WTF? It's not flamebait, it's a dissident's comment. I most certainly support their efforts to promote anti-sql agendas. I was merely pointing out that it's been done before. Oh, and I use Relational Databases and SQL all the time. I've also written object to relational mapping layers that have actually worked with transactions in memory! So I know of what I speak, which I doubt of the moderators as they are clearly blind. In fact why can't we see who moderated? Why can't we see all the ratings for a post? If someone moderates a post up as interesting why can't we see that too? The moderation system here at slashdot sucks big time for it's highly denigrating to those of us who attempt to share our hard earned wisdom. Sigh.[/meta]