Summary of

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Summary of Oracle does about-face on NoSQL
Jaikumar Vijayan, ComputerWorld, Oct 4th,
2011 Presented by James Klassen
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Summary

• May 2011 Oracle Released paper Debunking NoSQL
  Hype. (No longer available) 1
• Oct 2011 Oracle Released Big Data Appliance based
  on open source stack of Apache Hadoop (MapReduce)
  and R (statistical engine). 1
• Oracle's entry, in a sense validates the NoSQL
  space 1

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Why Not NoSQL?

• But, MapReduce doesn't allow some SQL features
  that are hard to run reliably in parallel. 3
• Joins, Full ACID compliance Transactions
  (across tables) 3
• There's no doubt that traditional database
  management products will continue to be around
  for many years 1

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Why NoSQL?

• In this case NoSQL means MapReduce architecture.
• MapReduce enables massive parallel queries. 2
• Supports shared-nothing commodity clusters 3
• Goals Performance, Fault Tolerance,
  Heterogeneous Environment

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Economic Impact

• New companies forming to support NoSQL (10Gen,
  DataStax, Couchbase, ) 1
• 10Gen raised 50 million, customers Viacom,
  Disney, SAP, FourSquare, Shutterfly 1

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Relationship With Course

• Relevant to chapters of Big Data, MapReduce, Cloud

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References
1 Jaikumar Vijayan, ComputerWorld, Oct 2011,
http//www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220501/Ora
cle_does_about_face_on_NoSQL? 2 Google, 2011,
http//code.google.com/edu/parallel/mapreduce-tuto
rial.html 3 Azza Abouzeid et.al., HadoopDB An
Architectural Hybrid of MapReduce and DBMS
Technologies for Analytical Workloads,
http//db.cs.yale.edu/hadoopdb/hadoopdb.pdf