RTaylor2208 (7/1/2015)

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I wouldn't say its a fad, but its definitely still in the infancy period. We currently use DynamoDB in Amazon Web Services and MongoDB in on site solutions, although the rest of our database estate is predominantly SQL server with some Oracle servers supporting internal finance applications.

Being a SQL Server DBA myself its been a struggle learning the new tech and linux all at the same time. I'm still not convinced either that its a great solution, however they do deal with unstructured data much better than a relational database.

Alot of the NoSQL options are open source as well so you don't necessarily get the same level of support that you would get with the big RDBMS players like SQL Server, Oracle and MySQL.