David.Poole (9/18/2012)
hakim.ali (9/17/2012)
Good reading, thanks. The NoSQL movement is more than 20 years old? Didn't know that...I think NoSQL is a new name for a much older concept.
In fact I think the underlying concept predates relational theory.
Some of the "new" systems look remarkably similar to COBOL flat files.:hehe:
Everything old is new again.
"Cloud Computing" is just "dumb-client" born again. 1970s technology with a better marketing-name.
"NoSQL" is just hierarchical, pointer, or flat-file databases born again, with a retronym added for marketing (again).
And so on.
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