* Posts by John Nolan

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Time to rewrite DBMS, says Ingres founder

John Nolan
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This is not new...

Since (at least) the early 90s the research community has been working on looking at breaking out of the paradigm of the traditional DBMS. The way we look at data has changed. With the Internet, data is out there and the DBMS community is struggling to find out how to cope with it. So there are researchers out there trying new things out, such as data appliances. p2pdmbs, MapReduce etc.. Some of these things will live and some will die.

Unless you are at the bleeding edge I wouldn't worry about it until it comes out of a shrink-wrapped box.