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by Dave_Rosenthal 4570 days ago
Slava, I love the "horseless carriage" analogy. I'll have to use that as I try to raise money in the NoSQL space :) Seriously though, it also points to a future where the NoSQL name is going make less and less sense. Anyone have suggestions for the NoSQL database equivalent of the word 'car'?

-Dave (FoundationDB)
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StavrosK 4569 days ago
Like my sibling commenter said, I prefer names that are more descriptive. I prefer "schemaless" databases, but it depends on what you do. Redis is called NoSQL but it's not a document database, it's more a key-value store with lots of slicing and dicing features.
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dragonwriter 4570 days ago
> Anyone have suggestions for the NoSQL database equivalent of the word 'car'?

Not really, because "NoSQL" databases aren't really a coherent group of things. "Document databases" is a good name for an important subset, though. As are "Column-oriented datastores".

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