IDG Contributor Network: Back to the (SQL) Future, Part 3

In the first post in this series, I discussed the emergence of NoSQL to address the need to make databases compatible with cloud needs. And in my last blog post, I talked about the dichotomy between smart databases and smart applications. I asked whether we can have smart databases that can scale on the cloud. So now let’s talk about why I think the answer is yes.The Big Data revolution was substantially powered by Hadoop, initially a combination of a distributed store and the new-fangled