NoSQL: no future for RDBMS?
Tokyo Cabinet is cool name. I think of some 80’s punk band every time I hear it - specially because it’s always associated with the NoSQL movement. In fact there’s a number of key/value stores out there that are really interesting for a large number of particular applications. Don’t think that RDBMS will die or get replaced by this approach. It’s almost like there’s a new way of doing things that weren’t thought or possible in the relational world (like Map/Reduce has introduced us to a new paradigm).
To the question on whether non-relational stores scale, don’t scale or scale easier than relational ones I’ll leave up to the blogosphere to debate. Here’s a good starting point.
