A NoSQL Moment

Here’s good summary of powerful NoSQL alternatives; none of them are new, but it reminded me of that one hour round table at the IANS conference in D.C. last year during which the moderator spoke non-stop for approximately one hour about the marvels of  “eventual consistency” and distributed file systems like Cassandra (a la Facebook) and Hadoop, among others.  I don’t know what that had to do with security, but at the time I did not really comprehend the strength of that movement, so it was certainly worth the hour. 

I’m not saying that relational databases don’t have their place, I’m only recognizing the value of databases that can potentially challenge the CAP theorem, even if by pulling a sort of kobayashi maru by side-stepping the ‘Consistency’ requirement.  And I’m interested to see if Neo4J will scale to handle distributed graphs.