451 Research Blogs

I don't know what's different this time, but suing bigcos isn't new. For example they sued Samsung, Westinghouse and a dozen others in 2009: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2009/dec/14/busybox-gpl-lawsuit/ Maybe the GPL is growing less relevant and that shows up in bigco priorities. https://www.blackducksoftware.com/resources/data/top-20-open-source-li… says the {,A,L}GPL{2,3} licenses are now down to 40% usage share, down from 70% in 2008. There are some oldish graphs at https://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2011/12/15/on-the-continuing-…

There are some changes happening, but certainly MySQL will dominate pre-existing installs for the foreseeable future. Switching databases is not trivial for most applications. Here's a blog post from 451Group in May 2012 about a survey they did: http://blogs.the451group.com/information_management/2012/05/25/survey-… And a specific bit of the presentation linked from there that I found interesting: http://www.slideshare.net/mattaslett/mysql-vs-nosql-and-newsql-survey-… Slide 20. It's certainly not conclusive, but it is interesting.

I'm intrigued by this, but there's so much ambiguity around what people mean by sql, noSql, and "newSql" (this post is the first time I've read this term). I clicked through a bit to get more information... here's a potential definition: http://blogs.the451group.com/information_management/2011/04/06/what-we… “NewSQL” is our shorthand for the various new scalable/high performance SQL database vendors. We have previously referred to these products as ‘ScalableSQL’ to differentiate them from the incumbent relational database products. Since this implies horizontal scalability, which is not necessarily a feature of all the products, we adopted the term ‘NewSQL’ in the new report. Like noSql, this term also appears to be intentionally broad, indicating a problem to be addressed rather than a very specific spec or solution. I don't have any problem with this, but the ambiguity can cause a lot of confusion... Are they doing away with the relational model? Or the SQL language itself? Here's another blurb that may answer this: "Like NoSQL, NewSQL is used to describe a loosely-affiliated group of companies (ScaleBase has done a good job of identifying, some of the several NewSQL sub-types) but what they have in common is the development of new relational database products and services designed to bring the benefits of the relational model to distributed architectures, or to improve the performance of relational databases to the extent that…