What Happened to NoSQL for the Enterprise?
…So what it comes down to is that for decades we’ve had one standard way to store and query important data, and today there are new choices. As with any choice, there are tradeoffs, and for some applications NoSQL databases, including Semantic Web databases, can enable organizations to get more done in less time and with less hardware than relational databases. The trick is to know when and how to deploy these new tools.
Polyglot Persistence
“I’m confident to say that if you starting a new strategic enterprise application you should no longer be assuming that your persistence should be relational. The relational option might be the right one - but you should seriously look at other alternatives.”
-Martin Fowler.
Is the Relational Database Doomed?
Recently, a lot of new non-relational databases have cropped up both inside and outside the cloud. One key message this sends is, “if you want vast, on-demand scalability, you need a non-relational database”.
and then you must also read The dark side of NoSql
For posts that are techy / matters a little grey that I din't want to be drowning in randomness.
