Don’t Believe the Big Database Hype, Stonebraker Warns
published on 2024/08/31
Column stores: Relational databases that store data in columns (as opposed to rows), such as Google Cloud BigQuery, AWS‘ Redshift, and Snowflake, have grown to dominate the data warehouse/OLAP market, “because of their superior performance.”
NewSQL systems: The rise of new relational (or SQL) database that scaled horizontally like NoSQL databases without giving up ACID guarantees may have seemed like a good idea. But this class of databases, such as SingleStore, NuoDB (now owned by Dassault Systems), and VoltDB (a Stonebraker creation) never caught on, largely because existing databases were “good enough” and didn’t warrant taking the risk of migrating to a new database.