Database Research: Are We at a Crossroad? Reflection on NoSQL

Author

Indrawan-Santiago, Maria

Author_Institution

Fac. of Inf. Technol., Monash Univ., Melbourne, VIC, Australia

fYear

2012

fDate

26-28 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

45

Lastpage

51

Abstract

The demand to process large sets of data has increased in the last few years from both the scientific and business community. To serve this demand, a number of new databases have been introduced that are not based on relational models. This group of databases is popularly known as NoSQL. The underlying data and transaction models in the NoSQL are different from relational databases. Much interest has been placed by organizations in adopting this new technology and has created a buzz in database research. The fact that the underlying principles are different to relational models has placed a dilemma in the database research community. Would this new technology change the shape of database research and industry?

Keywords

SQL; data models; relational databases; NoSQL; business community; data models; database research community; relational databases; relational models; scientific community; transaction models; Availability; Business; Data models; Object oriented modeling; Relational databases; XML; NoSQL; business analytics; database; key-value pair;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS), 2012 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Melbourne, VIC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2331-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NBiS.2012.95

Filename

6354806