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NoSQL databases are becoming very common place now and there are a lot more companies and hosted providers than there used to be. So naturally you are going to see more stories of people switching away from traditional SQL databases.

I work for a large enterprise who previously was an Oracle shop and even they are starting to using MongoDB and CouchDB internally.

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Yeah, maybe you're right..

>I work for a large enterprise who previously was an Oracle shop and even they are starting to using MongoDB and CouchDB internally.

Whoa..that's a pretty serious claim..seriously? If yes, then I think it really is the start of a new revolution...

They're not shutting down their Oracle DBs though. Or at least I hope not.

No. But all new development isn't being done on it.

My point is that stories like this are becoming the new norm especially with companies like 10gen and Datastax wining and dining CIO/GMs pretty hard. MongoDB in particular is getting a (misguided IMHO) reputation as a drop-in replacement for MySQL. And the last MongoDB training session had developers from banks, insurance companies, finance houses etc.

I am pretty sure that many of the next 10+ years of in-house built enterprise apps will be using NoSQL databases. Which will in turn then result in university courses changing thus affecting the next generation of programmers.

"MongoDB in particular is getting a (misguided IMHO) reputation as a drop-in replacement for MySQL."

I am so confused by this. Can you elaborate? Besides the word "database", what do those systems have in common? How is it a drop-in replacement?

The only reputation common to both is regarding data integrity, and it's not a good one.

>Whoa..that's a pretty serious claim..seriously? If yes, then I think it really is the start of a new revolution...

Or the peak of a fad that will get them running to their old dbs...

Have you guys taken a look at Cloudant yet?

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