The End Of Software - Anibal's Blog

All the cloud marketing is forcing a public review of all computing concepts... now it's time of... databases. SQL. SQL language rules the current generation of databases. Since its birth (1970), it became the most widely used language for relational databases. We can fairly say SQL is well structured and with a solid foundation, very matured. Today, it's omnipresent. We are talking about MySQL, Oracle, SQLServer, etc. Everyone in the computing business has created at least some tables to model a system. When I said SQL has a solid foundation, I mean the language is formally proved to be consistent (ACID properties), to guarantee transactions in order to preserve the information. The problem comes when we try to keep the consistency in a networked and distributed environment. In a cloud fashion, there's a movement claiming for no more SQL, NoSQL. "NoSQL is a movement promoting a loosely defined class of non-relational data stores that break with a long history of relational databases."...