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Sunday, July 4, 2010

Database Trend

Databases have been in use since the earliest days of electronic computing. Here is the history and where we are at currently:

1960s Navigational DBMS

1970s Relational DBMS & end of 1970s SQL DBMS

1980s Object Oriented Databases

1990s Performance enhancement through replication in an object-oriented DBMS.

2000s NoSQL databases are non-relational (Next Generation databases)

Typical modern relational databases have shown poor performance on data-intensive applications including indexing a large number of documents, serving pages on high-traffic websites and delivering streaming media.

Next Generation Databases mostly addressing some of the points: being non-relational, distributed, open-source and horizontal scalable. The original intention has been modern web-scale databases, use case friendly.

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