[deepsun]

> The Dynamo paper was well-received and served as a catalyst to create the category of distributed database technologies commonly known today as "NoSQL."

No, sorry, it was Memcached and Bigtable paper that popularized "NoSQL" term. Although there were many NoSQL databases tracing way back to 60s [1], those were the ones that "served as catalyst" for the term "NoSQL".

[1] http://blog.knuthaugen.no/2010/03/a-brief-history-of-nosql.h...

[pavlov]

Dynamo was certainly one of the products that spiked interest in the “NoSQL” datastore category.

The phrasing “served as a catalyst” seems right — it doesn’t imply the only catalyst.