Data Silos

Relational databases have been long-lived, but a completely different type of database, the key-value store, has established itself in the cloud market.

Martin Loschwitz

When it comes to structured data storage, admins have viewed relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL to be the ideal solution for decades. No other tool can store large volumes of data in such an efficient way, and virtually no other language can access databases as well as the powerful and versatile SQL. In the meantime, relational databases have become so popular that the top players in this genre have virtually become generic terms for databases themselves, to which the LAMP stack (e.g., Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL) bears witness to this day. However, just as LAMP has become less important over the years, the hype surrounding relational databases has died down, at least a little, for understandable reasons: The complexity of a relational database is by no means helpful…

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