BI Decision

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Is the One Size Database Dead?

Slashdot has an article based on some work at MIT showing databases with non-tradtional architectures can dramatically improve performance compared to the usual RDBMS.

It's an interesting race between new requirements and the mainstream. When requirements get ahead, we start seeing interesting new tools, when the big RDMS's catch up, then the new tools retreat to the niches.

I think we are coming out of an era when the big RDBMS's were ahead, but we may be heading into a new era of niche players.