DaaS

It's a lazy afternoon a couple of days before Christmas, I'm copying several tens of thousands of files from one (xml) database to another, the sun's shining, and it seems like a good time to set to print (or at least electrons) a few thoughts I've been having lately on data. People's outlook about data to a very great extent is colored by the tools that they use to collect, process and display that data, to the extent that, for many years now, the data landscape has been described almost invariably in terms of SQL-related technologies. Read more »

Editor's Note: While software as a service has been bandied about for the last decade, I've been watching two fascinating trends beginning to come together - the NoSQL movement, which is increasingly exploring "non-traditional" databases, including XML databases, and the notion of Database as a service (DaaS), in which database access is managed via RESTful services mediated by either XML or JSON. Read more »