On 04/08/2015 04:10 AM, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> What "NoSQL thing"?
Well, it all depends on what you mean by NoSQL. This very much seems
like a marketing (rather than technical) term we should embrace (rather
than battle).
voltdb.com [0] puts it that way: "VoltDB offers [..] the scalability of
NoSQL, [..] and the transactional consistency of traditional relational
databases."
> The last time I checked he was a vocal critic of the
> NoSQL movement, and involved in projects on relational databases like
> Vertica or VoltDB.
Their marketing has been clever enough not to fight NoSQL, but adjusts
the term slightly (keeping it equally meaningless from a technical
perspective) and now states: "Designed by Dr. Michael Stonebraker,
VoltDB is a modern NewSQL in-memory database [..]."
Let's embrace, extend and extinguish NoSQL!
But back to the topic at hand: It might be worth to ask Michael if he
wants to celebrate with us. But let's focus on celebrating Postgres, please.
Regarding the date: Remember that we had a 10th Anniversary Summit in
July 2006. Celebrating the 20th far off from July 2016 triggers a
serialization error in my mind. ;-)
Regards
Markus Wanner
0: http://voltdb.com/fast-smart-scale