Saturday, December 01, 2012

"Write Only" Data Stores for Big Data

NoSQL is not the only alternative to "classic" relational databases.

In particular some Clojure-related people are pushing a powerful concept
of reducing "CRUD" (Create Retrieve Update Delete) to "CR",
that is to replace update and delete functionality with alternative "write only" techniques.
This simplification enables many benefits...

This InfoQ presentation by  Nathan Marz from Twitter
includes a bold predictions that Relational databases will become history in near future...

Runaway Complexity in Big Data, and a Plan to Stop It:

Clojure is running on JVM (Java VM), but there is also a port on CRL (.NET)

clojure-clr

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