Some people make architecture decisions purely based on the loudest consultant: https://twitter.com/gareth/status/778575385600688129 For most others, however, decisions are not as simple as this. For instance: When should we start evaluating NoSQL storage systems as an alternative to RDBMS? RDBMS as the hammer for all nails This question obviously assumes that you're starting out with an … Continue reading When to Choose SQL and When to Choose NoSQL
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The 10 Most Popular DB Engines (SQL and NoSQL) in 2015
About two years ago, we've published this post about the 10 most popular DB engines, where we analyzed the data published by Solid IT on their DB Ranking website. In the meantime, the Solid IT measurement system has found to be a credible source, such that the website has also been cited at Gartner, InfoWorld, … Continue reading The 10 Most Popular DB Engines (SQL and NoSQL) in 2015
Top 10 Very Very VERY Important Topics to Discuss
Some things are just very very very VERY very important. Such as John Cleese. The same is true for Whitespace: Whitespace-Shedding Yes. 1080 Reddit Karma points (so urgently needed!) in only 23 hours. That's several orders of magnitudes better than any of our - what we wrongfully thought to be - very deep and interesting … Continue reading Top 10 Very Very VERY Important Topics to Discuss
A Bit of SQL History
SQL has been around for a while. Just recently, I've read this refreshing article about Codd's Relational Vision - Has NoSQL Come Full Circle? SQL is one of those awesome technologies that was invented almost two generations ago, and we're still using it in production and for new projects. It is both legacy and state-of-the-art. The … Continue reading A Bit of SQL History
MongoDB “Lightning Fast Aggregation” Challenged with Oracle
What does "Scale" even mean in the context of databases? When talking about scaling, people have jumped to the vendor-induced conclusion that: SQL doesn't scaleNoSQL scales It is very obvious that NoSQL vendors make such claims. It has also been interesting that many NoSQL consumers made such claims, even if they probably confused SQL in … Continue reading MongoDB “Lightning Fast Aggregation” Challenged with Oracle
A History of Databases in “No-tation”
We're heading towards very exciting times in the field of databases! At Topconf in beautiful Tallin, Estonia, Nikita Ivanov (founder and CEO of GridGain Systems) was talking about how the ever crumbling price of DRAM gets in-memory computing and thus in-memory databases within the reach of being affordable by even small and medium enterprises. Nikita … Continue reading A History of Databases in “No-tation”
jOOQ Newsletter October 10, 2013
Subscribe to this newsletter here. jOOQ 3.2 Released After a bit of time, jOOQ 3.2 has finally been released. This interesting release mainly includes two new SPIs (Service Provider Interfaces), which allow for: Injecting pre and post CRUD operation behaviour, which is useful for global ID generators. Injecting behaviour into the SQL rendering lifecycle allowing … Continue reading jOOQ Newsletter October 10, 2013
On MongoDB’s Success. Or Do Not Let Cynicism Kill Your Spirit
Success is a strange beast. On the bright side and true to entrepreneurial spirit, people admire those who are obviously successful. In the theory of our mostly capitalist societey, successful people worked hard for their success, and thus deserve it. In practice, there may be other mechanisms of success than working hard, but that's another story … Continue reading On MongoDB’s Success. Or Do Not Let Cynicism Kill Your Spirit
The Premature Return to SQL
In online communities, the NoSQL topic (much like the ORM topic) is a guarantee to stir emotions. Many emotions are stirred by evangelists on either side for ideological or marketing reasons. Here's an interesting post by Alex Popescu, a passionate NoSQL and polyglot persistence evangelist, claiming that the recent trend to return to SQL is … Continue reading The Premature Return to SQL
MIT Prof. Michael Stonebraker: “The Traditional RDBMS Wisdom is All Wrong”
A very interesting talk about the future of DBMS was recently given at EPFL by MIT Professor and VoltDB Co-founder and CTO Michael Stonebraker, who also gave us Ingres and Postgres. In a bit less than one hour, he explains his views with respect to the three main pillars of database management systems: OLAP / Data warehouses … Continue reading MIT Prof. Michael Stonebraker: “The Traditional RDBMS Wisdom is All Wrong”