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Modern DBMSs (cont)

Some conclusions:
  • relational model doesn't work for all applications
  • SQL is not appropriate for all applications
  • hard transactions not essential for all applications
Some "modernists" claim that
  • "for all"  is really  "for any"
  • relational DBMSs and SQL are dinosaurs
  • NoSQL is the new way