[dba-Tech] Oracle has made some bold claims

Hi Peter:

I am just guessing of course, but the writer may have figured it out on his
own. Have you ever noticed, in around twenty years in the business, a tech
starts to develop a certain cynicism and distrust of certain major players
and I just don't know why? :-)

Jim

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Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Oracle has made some bold claims

On 2013-02-13 1:58 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> Hi All:
>
> Recently, Oracle has made some bold claims as to the capabilities of the
new
> MySQL 5x...that MySQL now has NoSQL features.
>
> To add more coals to the fire between SQL and NoSQL camps, I decided to
post
> this following article from Cassandra, one of the leading reduced mapset
> developers...and they say:
>
> "...it's tough to tell whether Oracle got this so wrong deliberately to
sow
> confusion in the market, or because they really think that's what NoSQL is
> about. ". They are politely saying, "Either Oracle is lying or just plain
> stupid."

The guy writing the release prob'ly doesn't know. His boss likely does.

PB

>
> http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/oracles-mysql-misses-the-nosql-mark
>
> It is a good over-sight.
>
> Jim
>
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