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I lurk one of the postgresql dev lists and they are constantly making new commits and there always seem to be new features being added, most of which I haven't even started playing with. But I think I hear what you're saying. It's an older technology that's been pretty well explored and polished. Probably not much low hanging fruit. I haven't played with the NoSQL stuff yet. Probably because I find sql and it's super sets to be quite useful. One of you posted this a while back. Still cracks me up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:25 AM, <markw at mohawksoft.com> wrote: > 'm not saying they are "dead" as in no one is using them, I'm more > thinking they are dead with regard to feature development. > > PostgreSQL and MySQL and the commercial databases just seem less > "important" these days with things like MongoDB and Cassandra. Don't get > me wrong, I think the NoSQL crowd are fairly delusional because eventually > these NoSQL databases will all have SQL front ends and ACID > characteristics are vital to any real database. (but I digress) > > Traditional ACID SQL databases have more or less peaked. Data stores like > the NoSQL ilk are pretty much done feature wise as well. Stonebreaker's > next project is getting very little traction. > > Have databases become just another "word processor" like application where > almost all the standard offerings are really good enough? I mean, jeez, > tomcat, apache, php, etc. are all jus good enough and there are no new > "must have" features as well. > > I guess the real question is what's left or are infrastructure components > pretty much done? > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Eric Chadbourne 617.249.3377 http://theMnemeProject.org/ http://WebnerSolutions.com/
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