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NoSQL Data Stores, Readers Want More

NoSQL Data Stores, Readers Want More First a little housekeeping. I think it’s interesting that many of the newer data storage engines are labeled as “NoSQL”. Before these engines came along there have been a number of highly successful NoSQL databases that are difficult to beat for performance. For example, IDMS or CMS running on the IBM Mainframe platform has […]

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Where Did NoSQL Come From?

Where Did NoSQL Come From? I enjoyed listening to a podcast today of an interview with Jonathan Ellis , who is the project chair for the open systems NoSQL data engine, Cassandra. During the interview, Jonathan related different events causing companies to move away from traditional relational data stores. This is not to say that NoSQL data stores didn’t exist […]