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They're databases, Jim, but not as we know them.

<http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135086/No_to_SQL_Anti_database_movement_gains_steam_>

On 2009-07-12, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <_zealand> wrote:
> They're databases, Jim, but not as we know them.
>
><http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135086/No_to_SQL_Anti_database_movement_gains_steam_>
>
The offspring of the spreadsheet (used a database) and the relational DB.

In message <>, Gordon wrote:

> On 2009-07-12, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <_zealand>
> wrote:
>
>> They're databases, Jim, but not as we know them.
>>
>><http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135086/No_to_SQL_Anti_database_movement_gains_steam_>
>>
> The offspring of the spreadsheet (used a database) and the relational DB.

Nothing to do with spreadsheets or relational databases. Have you looked at
HyperTable (an open-source version of Google's BigTable)? It appears more
like a gigantic hash table on disk--simple, fast lookups on mind-boggling
amounts of data.

This <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/11/hadoop_dziuba/> is also worth
a read.