NoSQL database?

Today, IBM, one of the three major manufacturers of traditional database fields, announces that it will add NoSQL functionality to future DB2 flagship databases. And just yesterday, database leader Oracle announced the release of its latest NoSQL database, although the two products are intrinsically different (Oracle NoSQL Datbase will be released as a stand-alone product, based on Berkeley DB IBM's NoSQL database will migrate to DB2 and Informix, with no specific technical details to release. But an indisputable fact is that NoSQL technology has been the most widely recognized, but does it mean that the NoSQL movement has become a fruition?

Let's turn back the time to two years ago, when it was the NoSQL movement most of the time, when I think NoSQL lack of large manufacturers support, it will be difficult to form a climate. But the situation now seems to have shifted, and traditional it vendors, including Oracle and IBM, have tried to nosql the NoSQL technology as a traditional database: NoSQL to deal with massive data storage and analysis, the RDBMS will serve as a traditional OLTP platform. The spirit of not only SQL is finally embodied. In fact, the reason is not difficult to find that there are a large number of users are suffering from large data, traditional relational database can not or can not be a good solution to the massive data storage and rapid analysis of the pressure, in such cases, talk about the cloud has become extremely unreliable. Therefore, IBM and Oracle should receive a lot of customer complaints and needs, nosql+hadoop of the combination of the necessary.

As I mentioned in my previous article, Hadoop has been supported by most of the large it vendors, and today it is very encouraging to know that IBM has turned to embrace nosql, so never underestimate the power of the open source community. But the big manufacturers ' joining is worth NoSQL fans ' attention, but we also put forward some worries about the development direction of NoSQL. Some netizens even said that the NoSQL embedded DB2 is in the waste of technology, expressed dissatisfaction with this way. IBM's current plan is for the rational team to get the appropriate technology from the open source community and make changes to DB2, allowing the NoSQL to have a significant increase in scalability and usability. Some netizens have also put forward the suspicion to this move, they think rational and DB2 is pure make the product of the avenue to become bloated, nosql fall into its hand necessarily live inferior to die. Most users are most worried about the NoSQL market due to the entry of large manufacturers, which set off the upsurge of mergers and acquisitions, so that the original smooth development of the Pure land to become the arena of commercial profits. For this, IDC analysts believe that companies such as Oracle, which want to delve deeper into the nosql market, are likely to resort to mergers and acquisitions.

Is this a good thing or a bad thing for NoSQL? Perhaps the future nosql may become the mainstream, but the body must be full of stink, this is a contradictory problem.

Interestingly, both IBM and Oracle are already on the NoSQL market, but Microsoft is still on the sidelines, though they have already introduced components such as Hadoop connectors, but Microsoft has said nothing about the need for "NoSQL". Another Sybase, after being grouped into SAP, obsessed research on the column-type database and mobile technology, an expert. Some people began to use ordinary youth, literary and artistic youth to metaphor database, and now the database market has become interesting again.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)