Open Source NoSQL Databases Ramp Up

“For most of the Web era, Relational Database Management Systems
(RDBMS) based on SQL have dominated the database landscape. But
over the course of the last year, a new approach has begun to take
hold known as NoSQL, offering an alternative to the traditional
RDBMS.

“This week at the NoSQL Live conference in Boston, multiple open
source projects and the vendors that back them will talk about the
merits and limitations of the new approach. While projects like
CouchDB, MongoDB, Cassandra and Valdemort are in use by some of the
biggest names in the Web, including Twitter, Sourceforge, Facebook
and LinkedIn, the NoSQL approach might not be for everyone, though
it will make sense for a certain class of development. p>””The
NoSQL movement has recognized that a new class of applications
doesn’t need all the heavyweight rigid structure that comes along
with a SQL RDBMS,” Cloudant CEO Alan Hoffman told InternetNews.com.
“There are a new class of problems that can be solved with
different types of database solutions that in some cases require
more flexible data storage systems.”

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