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February 7, 2012

Hybrid SQL-NoSQL Databases Are Gaining Ground

Filed under: NoSQL,SQL,SQL-NoSQL — Patrick Durusau @ 4:29 pm

Hybrid SQL-NoSQL Databases Are Gaining Ground

From the post:

Hybrid SQL-NoSQL database solutions combine the advantage of being compatible with many SQL applications and providing the scalability of NoSQL ones. Xeround offers such a solution as a service in the cloud, including a free edition. Other solutions: Database.com with ODBC/JDBC drivers, NuoDB, Clustrix, and VoltDB.

Xeround provides a DB-as-a-Service based on a SQL-NoSQL hybrid. The front-end is a MySQL query engine, appealing to the already existing large number of MySQL applications, but its storage API works with an in-memory distributed NoSQL object store up to 50 GB in size. Razi Sharir, Xeround CEO, detailed for InfoQ:

Read the post to find offers of smallish development space for free.

Do you get the sense that terminology is being invented at a rapid pace in this area? Which is going to make comparing SQL, NoSQL, SQL-NoSQL, etc., offerings more and more difficult? Not to mention differences due to platforms (including the cloud).

Doesn’t that make it difficult for both private as well as government CIO’s to:

  1. Formulate specifications for RFPs
  2. Evaluate responses to RFPs
  3. Measure performance or meeting of other requirements across responses
  4. Same as #3 but under actual testing condition?

Semantic impedance, it will be with us always.

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