SQL databases v. NoSQL databases

  • Authors:
  • Michael Stonebraker

  • Affiliations:
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 2010

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The Communications Web site, http://cacm.acm.org, features more than a dozen bloggers in the BLOG@CACM community. In each issue of Communications, we'll publish excerpts from selected posts.twitterFollow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/blogCACMMichael Stonebraker considers several performance arguments in favor of NoSQL databases---and finds them insufficient.