There's been a difference with this "technology cycle" though, there have been some prominent, well grounded voices from the start of this cycle.
That's a good thing.
That wasn't the case for other cycles - the thin vs fat client cycle, the DAS vs NAS cycle etc. etc.
EDIT: i'm not saying NoSQL has no application. I earn a paycheck working with a huge graph db (and it's nothing to do with "social", yay!), and have previously been a heavy user of Cassandra.
There's been a difference with this "technology cycle" though, there have been some prominent, well grounded voices from the start of this cycle.
That's a good thing.
That wasn't the case for other cycles - the thin vs fat client cycle, the DAS vs NAS cycle etc. etc.
EDIT: i'm not saying NoSQL has no application. I earn a paycheck working with a huge graph db (and it's nothing to do with "social", yay!), and have previously been a heavy user of Cassandra.