Xaprb » AlsoSQL http://www.xaprb.com/blog Stay curious! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:58:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Postmodern databases http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2010/06/12/postmodern-databases/ http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2010/06/12/postmodern-databases/#comments Sat, 12 Jun 2010 17:29:31 +0000 Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=1893 Further Reading:]]> Dr. Richard Hipp gave a talk at Southeast Linux Fest today on choosing an open-source database. He thinks that NoSQL is not a very good name for the new databases we’re seeing these days, so he proposed a new name: postmodern databases. Why postmodern?

  • The absence of objective truth
  • Queries return opinions, not facts

I thought this was the best proposal I’ve heard for an alternative to the NoSQL moniker. And this is not bashing — the absence of objective truth can actually be an enabling quality, not necessarily a drawback. There’s a lot to compliment about the new databases, and calling them NoSQL is really a disservice — like calling a car a horseless carriage.

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