[doppel]

In my opinion, NoSQL is bullshit because it markets itself on what it's not rather than what it is, which is not so easily explained in one simply buzzword.

Grouping Cassandra, CouchDB, MongoDB, Redis, etc. is the same as grouping MySQL with git - they all store data in one way or another, but the data they store and the way they store it varies wildly.

It's also sad, because all these "alternative" databases offer a lot of features that RDBMS' don't, and they should be promoted instead of stuck under an "umbrella" term to protest against SQL databases.