Anti SQL Database Movement

These days, there are some very big systems running without relational databases backing them. Computerworld has a nice article discussing the trend of stalwarts like google, facebook, etc moving away from traditional databases.

“Relational databases give you too much. They force you to twist your object data to fit a RDBMS [relational database management system],” said Jon Travis, principal engineer at Java toolmaker SpringSource, one of the 10 presenters at the NoSQL confab (PDF). NoSQL-based alternatives “just give you what you need,” Travis said.

link: No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam