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” →

“NoSQL” should be called “SQL with alternative storage models”

Time and again, you'll find blog posts like this one here telling you the same "truths" about SQL vs. NoSQL: http://onewebsql.com/blog/no-sql-do-i-really-need-it (OneWebSQL being a competitor of jOOQ, see a previous article for a comparison) Usually, those blogs aim for the same arguments being: Performance ("SQL" can "never" scale as much as "NoSQL") ACID (you don't … Continue reading “NoSQL” should be called “SQL with alternative storage models” →