I just finished reading of the very interesting paper “No Relation: The Mixed Blessings of Non-Relational Databases” by Ian Thomas Varley which compares a relational and a non-relational databases. I enjoyed the reading very much.
The work describes principal RDBMS services in the perspective of their replacements in the non RDBMS world. The services discussed in this perspective are ACID properties and the expressive power of the SQL language.
The author seems to be a bit biased towards non-relational databases, but this text still going to be very interesting to anyone exploring this new area in the database management.
In my opinion the paper suggests very good classification and organization of the information on the subject.
The bottom line – read this article if you want to clarify your understating of RDBMS alternatives.
Thursday 4 February 2010
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