Hybrid RDBMS Systems Now Coined NewSQL Databases

When you look at the evolution of NoSQL it has primary evolved to solve specific problems that were difficult, not impossible, to solve using a traditional RDBMS. In other words, NoSQL became perhaps a "better" or "different" way to solve a problem. A lot of NoSQL solutions achieve their scalability by choosing to make compromises on things like consistency and transactions.

But what if you didn't want to compromise? What if you wanted scalability and things like ACID compliant transactions?

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Transactions on a Budget

Interesting article describing some performance statistics from VoltDB. VoltDB is not quite a NoSQL database, but isn't quite 100% a traditional relational database either. Regardless the numbers being discussed are damn impressive.

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Michael Stonebraker on Hadoop, NoSQL and ACID

Michael Stonebraker, CTO of VoltDB and key figure in the development of relational database technology has shared some thoughts on a number of topics ranging from MapReduce, NoSQL and ACID. While provocative the article does pose some very interesting questions.

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Links of the Day - 2010/07/16

Links of the Day for July 16, 2010

• Considerations for Hadoop and BI (part 1 of 2) - Part one of a two part posting that discusses various considerations to evaluate when considering using Hadoop for business intelligence.
• VoltDB: Is a database without foreign keys useful enough for you? - Post that discusses VoltDB's approach to consistency i.e. it's done in the application layer. Is this an acceptable tradeoff for speed and scalability?
• A Few Words About NoSQL and Other Unstructured Databases -Article from CIOUpdate.com that discusses various NoSQL data stores at a very high level.

Links of the Day - 2010/07/06

Links of the day for July 07, 2010

• VoltDB Decapitates Six SQL Urban Myths And Delivers Internet Scale OLTP In The Process - The folks over at HighScalability.com have an interesting post about VoltDB. Specifically they discuss Mike Stonebraker's presentation at Gluecon in which he dispells six urban myths of SQL. There's been a lot of chatter recently about VoltDB so it's worth a read.
• Urban Myths about SQL - Here are the actual slides from Mike Stonebraker's presentation at Gluecon.
• Modeling Categories in a Graph Database - We've actually talked alot recently about graph databases (here, here and here). But this post actually shows us how we can use graph databases to model hierarchical categories. I'm sure a lot of you (including myself) have tried to do the same in SQL.