Hadoop and Bigtable
Posted by Ravi Khanal on Nov 25, 2008
Are Apache Hadoop and Google’s Bigtable becoming the major threat for the relational database?
The relational database is the dominent database till now. When Object Oriented Database came into market. Everybody at that time expected that Object Oriented Database was the evolutionary step in the database and it would replace all the relational databases. But it never happened. The main thing we should note is that although Object Oriented Programming language is so popular, the Object Oriented Database failed. If we look closely for the failure of OODBMS’s against traditional RDBMS then its due to the lack of interoperability with a great number of features and tools that we use with SQL like reporting tools, OLAP tools, backups and recovery standards. Moreover OODBMS had weakness on query support due to the lacking of formal mathematical foundation.
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