Mumps: The Proto-Database (Or How To Build Your Own NoSQL Database) by Rob Tweed.
From the post:
I think that one of the problems with Mumps as a database technology, and something that many people don’t like about the Mumps database is that it is a very basic and low-level engine, without any of the frills and value-added things that people expect from a database these days. A Mumps database doesn’t provide built-in indexing, for example, nor does it have any high-level query language (eg SQL, Map/Reduce) built in, though there are add-on products that can provide such capabilities.
On the other hand, a raw Mumps database, such as GT.M, is actually an interesting beast, as it turns out to provide everything you need to design and create your own NoSQL (or pretty much any other kind of) database. As I’ve discussed and mentioned a number of times in these articles, it’s a Universal NoSQL engine.
Why, you might ask, would you want to create your own NoSQL database? I’d possibly agree, but there hardly seems to be a week go by without someone doing exactly that and launching yet another NoSQL database. So, there’s clearly a perceived need or desire to do so.
I first saw this at Mumps: The Proto-Database by Alex Popescu.
Alex asks:
The question I’d ask myself is not “why would I build another NoSQL database”, but rather “why none of the popular ones are built using Mumps?”.
I suspect the answer is the same one for why are popular NoSQL databases, such as MongoDB, are re-inventing text indexing? (see MongoDB 2.4 Release)