RE: Oracle NoSQL Documentation

  • From: Martin Brown <martinfbrown@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx>, <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:30:22 -0400

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
> 
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> ________________________________
> 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!
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