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[News] Monty Explains Naming of MySQL Database Derivative, Why "NoSQL" is a Bad Name

  • Subject: [News] Monty Explains Naming of MySQL Database Derivative, Why "NoSQL" is a Bad Name
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 01 May 2010 23:24:04 +0100
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Rename Maria

,----[ Quote ]
| To prevent confusion, it seemed like a wise 
| choice to get the storage engine, Maria, 
| renamed. MariaDB is already making a name 
| for itself, and the trademarks are owned in 
| numerous regions. Monty has no more children 
| (he suggests Lucy, the name of his dog!), so 
| we decided that the next best thing is to 
| rely on the community for renaming the Maria 
| Storage Engine. 
| 
| [...]
| 
| Monty initially only planned to work on a 
| next generation MyISAM called Maria, that 
| would be crash safe, and eventually support 
| transactions. Little did he know that in due 
| time, he would not only be working on just 
| another storage engine, but a complete 
| branch of the MySQL database. Not coming up 
| with a name almost immediately, he decided 
| to call it MariaDB, named after his 
| daughter, Maria.
`---- 

http://askmonty.org/wiki/Rename_Maria

A Few Words About 'NoSQL' and Other Unstructured Databases

,----[ Quote ]
| No one likes this term. Attempting to 
| describe something by what it isnât 
| typically doesnât work â and, to make 
| matters worse, this is about data-store 
| relationships and not about SQL at all. Yet 
| NoSQL databases have significant advantages, 
| including:
| 
|     * Seemingly infinite scalability 
|     (Facebook is using Cassandra to store 
|     and query 50TB of user inbox data).
|     * Extraordinary fault tolerance.
|     * High availability.
|     * A design-friendly lack of schema.
|     * Integration of both RESTful and cloud 
|     computing technologies. 
`----

http://www.cioupdate.com/features/article.php/3879191/A-Few-Words-About-NoSQL-and-Other-Unstructured-Databases.htm


Recent:

Recently in MariaDB #1

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| The aims of this kind of blog post is simple
| â I want to help keep the masses informed as
| to whatâs happening with MariaDB, as a
| whole. There is a community growing, and
| MariaDB is a community project, not
| necessarily a Monty Program Ab baby (and
| weâre clear on this distinction: think of it
| like Canonical/Ubuntu). So, think of it as
| such that Iâm sharing the good news, and
| summarising whatâs been happening, to save
| you time.
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http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2010/02/23/recently-in-mariadb-1
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