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

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."

Comments

Protest taxes, not databases

[Anonymous Coward]

Too bad they can't protest the current regimes taxes with as much enthusiasm. At least it would be a protest against something that actually matters.

lots of these guys belong to flat earth society

[Dan667]

Think of the discussions!