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Oracle says ‘yes’ to NoSQL


By Alex Handy


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October 26, 2011 —  (Page 1 of 2)
October has been a busy month for the emerging NoSQL market. Oracle kicked it off with the announcement at its annual conference of its own NoSQL database, a scalable cluster-based version of the Berkeley DB key/value store. Then, the Apache Foundation and DataStax announced the release of Cassandra 1.0, which adds multi-threaded compaction and performance improvements to the popular NoSQL database.

Despite the heady pace of innovation and the release of new open-source projects in the NoSQL space, there are still new projects emerging almost every day. Even as Oracle is entering a market that until now it has maintained was filled with snake oil, smaller startups and groups of developers are still putting together new and novel solutions for quickly managing and storing large amounts of data.

And that's probably because some NoSQL companies are already seeing big gains inside enterprises and government organizations. MarkLogic, the company behind the unstructured data store of the same name, has been growing quickly with the rise of the NoSQL movement, said David Gorbet, vice president of product strategy at MarkLogic.

Gorbet said MarkLogic was founded in 2003, and that its database product increasingly fills a hole left by traditional relational databases. “The principle of the company is that there is some data that's difficult to fit into a relational data store that needs a different paradigm for managing it, but it still needs the benefits of a database behind that," he said.

"Our first customers were in intelligence and publishing, and more recently we've been making inroads to financial services and healthcare firms that have big data problems. We're a private company with over 250 employees. We've had great growth. We grew by 45% in 2010, and we're on track to grow faster than that in 2011."

That growth is fueled by the increasing need within enterprises for solutions to their big data problems. While solutions like Hadoop are handling the after effects of the big-data explosion and allowing enterprises to get their arms around the data slowly, NoSQL solutions deal with the opposite end of the problem: storing and making that unstructured data available for immediate use in scalable Web and mobile applications.

And while 2010 was the year that the NoSQL movement kicked off, 10gen CEO Dwight Merriman said that it was 2011 in which enterprises began to actually use NoSQL databases.

“I think they wanted a certain level of maturity, and only this year has it gotten to that point where they're comfortable,” said Merriman. “I think what's happened in 2010...was it became a popular product. That was the biggest change from our point of view in 2010. In 2011, enterprises are using the stuff now. Starting in January of this year, we've seen that really ramp up. We see Fortune 500 companies using MongoDB, or other projects in the space."

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