Postgres Project To Go NoSQL 62
TheFuzzy writes "Apparently the PostgreSQL project is caving in to recent trends and going NoSQL next year. This will leave SQLite as the only open source database still supporting SQL."
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April Fools (Score:2, Informative)
Another one ... (Score:3, Informative)
Just one April Fools story should be enough.
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You laugh, but Mozilla Raindrop [mozillalabs.com], the latest project by the Thunderbird devs, uses CouchDB. No April fools here.
Summary misses the whole joke (Score:5, Informative)
The summary here misses the whole joke.
Way back when, there was a relational database named Postgres that used a query language called QUEL. As SQL caught on, they had to support it, so they replaced the QUEL support with SQL support and renamed the database PostgreSQL. This is the database that we use today.
The whole joke is that they're going retro.
(Anyone who actually wants to try out an implementation of QUEL can use Ingres, which is also open source now.)