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:
- Formulate specifications for RFPs
- Evaluate responses to RFPs
- Measure performance or meeting of other requirements across responses
- Same as #3 but under actual testing condition?
Semantic impedance, it will be with us always.