MarkLogic comes to developers
September 20, 2012 —
(Page 2 of 3)
And while the elephant in the room is and will remain Oracle, Wiederhold said that acquisition by Oracle is not the only goal in this emerging marketplace.
“Do all roads lead to Oracle? Not necessarily,” he said. “Obviously Oracle, Microsoft and IBM are all inquisitive companies. More and more, large customers are going to adopt NoSQL in a big way. That doesn't mean relational is going to go away. We think relational absolutely has its set of strengths and weaknesses. It makes perfect sense for some use cases. But if you're a database company, in the future you're going to need to offer something broader than just relational technology.”
The NoSQL revolution seems to be churning out a new database every month, if not every week. While Cassandra, Couchbase, MarkLogic and MongoDB all push for name recognition and market share, other outsiders with non-relational databases have glommed onto the term as a way to bring new customers to their databases.
But resizing the name to fit only some of the databases now referred to as NoSQL doesn't mean that every company only needs one database. 10gen CEO Dwight Merriman said that “the database market is US$300 billion, and it's growing. This space is not a niche. One size fits all is over. You'll have a couple of tools in your toolbox, but you're not going to have 12. Maybe you need a time series for that one project, but for your tool set, you'll have a small set of databases: a relational, a warehouse and a NoSQL.”
As such, the competition between key value stores has been heating up. Couchbase, for example, will release version 2.0 of its database this fall. This new version will include the promised integrations between the Memcached-inspired Membase and the document-oriented CouchDB.
Wiederhold said that this transition from key value store to something more capable has been in the works for some time. “Our strategy has always been to start out by being a key value database, and then expand to being a document database,” he said.
Related Search Term(s): MarkLogic, NoSQL
Share this link: http://sdt.bz/36968
Most Read
Latest News
Resources
SAP unveils SAP HANA platform innovations for Big Data and spatial processing
Features include smart data access and expanded cloud deployment options
|
|
|
Alteryx raises $12 million to put Big Data analytics in the hands of all business analysts
Quest founder's firm, Toba Capital, selects Alteryx as its first analytics investment
|
|
|
Google I/O kicks off
Developers get new APIs and tools, and the Go language hits version 1.1
|
|
|
Jelastic launches new version of its Java and PHP hosting platform
Jelastic today announced the launch of a new version of its ultra-scalable cloud hosting platform
|
Telerik adds back-end services to Icenium mobile tool suite
Icenium Everlive makes the suite a complete app development platform, the company says
|
|
|
CollabNet fuses CloudForge, TeamForge
New pricing structure and integration gives developers an enterprise-grade choice for dist...
|
|
|
Eclipse release train for Kepler arrives June 26
New version of Eclipse includes Stardust for business process management, and Orion 3.0 fo...
|
|
|
Google I/O kicks off
Developers get new APIs and tools, and the Go language hits version 1.1
|
IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud Testing and ASQ SaaS
Demand for solutions to test applications on the cloud and for the cloud is rising signifi...
|
|
|
Get to Know the Database Decision Factors
What should you look for when choosing a relational database system? This informative arti...
|
|
|
Exploring the Database Forest
Today’s database technology landscape is more dynamic and varied than ever before. What’s...
|
|
|
Data Management Resource Guide
Today’s data is generated by more than just applications. Data is generated by trillions o...
|