>I think we are starting to get to that point with relational and nosql. Tools are starting to emerge on the relational DB side to allow more nosql-like structures within traditional DBMS systems. I think in the coming year or two we'll start seeing a lot more interesting tools to mix relational and non-relational datastores.
Yep. Postgres showed some pretty strong commitment to key-value datatypes in 2006 by including the hstore contrib module in the mainline tree, and native JSON support is coming in September with 9.2.
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>I think we are starting to get to that point with relational and nosql. Tools are starting to emerge on the relational DB side to allow more nosql-like structures within traditional DBMS systems. I think in the coming year or two we'll start seeing a lot more interesting tools to mix relational and non-relational datastores.
Yep. Postgres showed some pretty strong commitment to key-value datatypes in 2006 by including the hstore contrib module in the mainline tree, and native JSON support is coming in September with 9.2.