The beginning of the end of NoSQL

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13 points·Jnwinter··4 comments

I have a couple of quibbles with the article, but they pale next to the inaccuracy of the title.

The premise of the article is one vendor of a NoSQL database solution is distancing itself from the term NoSQL because it is not specific enough. The article goes on to explain that "NoSQL" refers to a variety of SQL-less approaches to data management, and that other vendors will de-emphasize the term NoSQL in favour of being more specific about their technology/paradigm.

The title makes it sound like the article claims that everyone in the industry will be going back to SQL, when in fact the article (a) is only discussing commercial vendors, and (b) is only discussing the use of the term NoSQL, not the technologies themselves.

Welcome to the wonderful world of buzzwords. Remember the goal is to pick a name that helps you sell stuff not to be technically useful.

You may recall that DHTML became Ajax even though no new technology comes about. NoSQL did not solve everyone’s problems so it's time to rename the same idea and start the hype cycle up again. Expect the same thing to happen again and again.

PS: Despite the name, the use of XML is not actually required, nor do the requests need to be asynchronous (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming))

Agreed. Flagged for inaccurate title.

The truth is when I spoke about CouchDB at the first NoSQL meetup, I was thinking about "No SQL in HTML5" as that was currently the big debate in the W3C. The term worked for that purpose (it looks like IndexedDB is going to win as the local database spec) but aside from that I don't think it gives us much.

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