Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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."

7 of 62 comments (clear)

  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 ?

  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. 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.

  7. 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.)