Contributed by José González Gómez
Programming, agility and motivation
Is ‘NewSQL’ the cure?
But Stonebraker — an entrepreneur as much as a computer scientist — has an answer for the shortcoming of both “old SQL” and NoSQL. It’s called NewSQL (a term coined by 451 Group analyst Matthew Aslett) or scalable SQL, as I’ve referred to it in the past. Pushed by companies such as Xeround, Clustrix, NimbusDB, GenieDB and Stonebraker’s own VoltDB, NewSQL products maintain ACID properties while eliminating most of the other functions that slow legacy SQL performance. VoltDB, an online-transaction processing (OLTP) database, utilizes a number of methods to improve speed, including by running entirely in-memory instead of on disk.
It would be easy to accuse Stonebraker of tooting his own horn, but NewSQL vendors have been garnering lots of attention, investment and customers over the past year. There’s no guarantee they’re the solution for Facebook’s MySQL woes — the complexity of Facebook’s architecture and the company’s penchant for open source being among the reasons — but perhaps NewSQL will help the next generation of web startups avoid falling into the pitfalls of their predecessors. Until, that is, it, too, becomes a relic of the Web 3.0 era.
When we haven't already mastered the NoSQL databases, with Java PaaS offers flourishing, and with SQL databases still engraved in our aging software engineer brains, a new actor enters the cloud arena: NewSQL databases.
In the social and cloud computing era, applications are more than ever demanding data stores that can keep up with the real time collaboration needs of a whole humanity wanting to share everything and to interact in every imaginable way. Let's see if these so called NewSQL databases are up to the task!
Contributed by José González Gómez
A software engineer open to any input that helps him to improve the value provided to his customers and the motivation of his coworkers
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