Won't venture to tell you how old I am, but I wish it were 46 .... I did not know that Oracle had announced a version of NoSQL, but I have an application that could certainly benefit from it. At least to the point to where this is worth a good read to see if it's a fit.... Thanks. > Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:22:29 -0700 > From: robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Oracle NoSQL Documentation > To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Sven... > >>I am not in my 20ies anymore! > Neither am I.... I'm 46.... and yet here I am at a customer about to talk to > them about NoSQL, HDFS and Hadoop.... > > > Respectfully, if you want to stay relevant in this field, you need to > disengage from this kind of thinking. It is a fact that technology is > changing, that new needs need new solutions and that no mater how we hate it, > change happens. You need to be prepared to deal with change, or become > irrelevant and less marketable. Frankly, if I were a hiring manager and you > displayed that kind of attitude in an interview, I'd probably disqualify you > on the spot. > > > Understand how NoSQL fits into the enterprise environment (or does not > depending on how you look at it) and what it's used for. It's not going to > supplant the normal RDBMS, ever, but rather it typically serves as a landing > spot for "Big Data" ... typically key paired data, that eventually finds it's > way into a traditional RDBMS (Oracle of course!). I personally think that the > typical "Big Data" infrastructure (Hadoop, DBFS, NoSQL, etc) is probably over > used these days for a variety of reasons. I believe that in many cases the > traditional database infrastructure could be used rather than a brand new > "Big Data" infrastructure. However there are many business cases where this > infrastructure is clearly needed and as unstructured, high volume and high > velocity data becomes more and more prevalent in the data center, we will > forced to deal with it. > > > Moore's law applies in many ways in the technology field.... and I often find > myself tiring with the pace of change, but that is the way things are. You > have to keep up, find yourself become less and less marketable, change > careers or retire. It's all up to you. > > > Relevant to NoSQL, the database skills you have learned will not be going > away and will always be in demand. > > Cheers > > RF > > > > Robert G. Freeman > Master Principal Consultant, Oracle Corporation, Oracle ACE > Author of various books on RMAN, New Features and this shorter signature line. > Blog: http://robertgfreeman.blogspot.com > > > Note: THIS EMAIL IS NOT AN OFFICIAL ORACLE SUPPORT COMMUNICATION. It is just > the opinion of one Oracle employee. I can be wrong, have been wrong in the > past and will be wrong in the future. If your problem is a critical > production problem, you should always contact Oracle support for assistance. > Statements in this email in no way represent Oracle Corporation or any > subsidiaries and reflect only the opinion of the author of this email. > > > ________________________________ > From: Sven Aluoor <aluoor@xxxxxxxxx> > To: Hemant.Chitale@xxxxxx > Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 7:13 AM > Subject: Re: Oracle NoSQL Documentation > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Chitale, Hemant Krishnarao > <Hemant.Chitale@xxxxxx> wrote: > > If anyone's interested ;> > > http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/NOSQL/html/index.html > > That's really not funny! > I am learning since nearly one year for "1Z0-047 Oracle Database SQL > Expert" and wrote a lot SQL scripts in my job. You wish to say me that > this know-how is useless and I need to learn Java? I am not in my > 20ies anymore! > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l