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Postgres Project To Go NoSQL

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the time-to-migrate dept.

TheFuzzy writes "Apparently the PostgreSQL project is caving in to recent trends and going NoSQL next year. This will leave SQLite as the only open source database still supporting SQL."

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  1. April Fools by Obble · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is another 1st April joke.

    1. Re:April Fools by ElKry · · Score: 3, Funny

      Reeeeeeeeeeally?

  2. Phew... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    About damn time!

  3. Good by Voulnet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is a frakkin' great April Fools! Especially the tinfoil guy. Props to you, whoever you are.

  4. Another one ... by MaoTse · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just one April Fools story should be enough.
    We come here for content, you know ?

    1. Re:Another one ... by rubycodez · · Score: 2, Interesting

      content? No, this is abuse by trolls under sensationalized headlines and duped stories...for content, you want wired.com or geek.com just down the net. stupid git.

  5. "WHAT?!" by u0berdev · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Man, this got me good. I literally yelled outloud, "WHAT?!" in my office as I read in disgust...

  6. Extreme Databasing by CuteSteveJobs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    > This is another 1st April joke.

    Thanks. Due to Time Zones and all it nearly got me!

    But yeah: I wonder if NoSQL's success isn't due to people who think SQL is too hard to learn, much like Extreme Programming's success is due to people who want to code but not do the boring test and documentation part.

  7. Re:Is this april 1 bullshit going to go on all day by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let's see - it's April 1 all day. At least I think that's how it works. Some of us wait all year for this shit. Go get a life for the day if you have keyboard stuck up your ass. I remember a time when ALL /. stories would be bogus on April Fool's. Admit it - you're whining because you're afraid you won't be able to figure out which is which! Go suck on your thumb until you grow up enough to not cry bloody hell when people try to have a little fun. Or maybe you whine like that every day - and we just get to hear about it because we're special.

    I really don't care either way, but if it bothers you, maybe you could STEP AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER FOR A DAY?!?!? Quit bitching at the rest of us for not living life your way.

  8. Re:The minus button by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 3, Funny

    Little do you know that, on April 1, said button is rather connected to your own karma.

  9. Re:Not unless... by mini+me · · Score: 2, Informative

    You laugh, but Mozilla Raindrop, the latest project by the Thunderbird devs, uses CouchDB. No April fools here.

  10. Summary misses the whole joke by kabloom · · Score: 4, Informative

    The summary here misses the whole joke.

    Way back when, there was a relational database named Postgres that used a query language called QUEL. As SQL caught on, they had to support it, so they replaced the QUEL support with SQL support and renamed the database PostgreSQL. This is the database that we use today.

    The whole joke is that they're going retro.

    (Anyone who actually wants to try out an implementation of QUEL can use Ingres, which is also open source now.)