 | |  | | Doug Henschen | | | | | DataStax, the commercial support provider behind the Cassandra open-source NoSQL database, announced this week that is has seen "dozens" of companies migrate from Oracle Database and Oracle MySQL to Cassandra over the last few quarters. The reason it's happening, according to DataStax CEO Billy Bosworth, is that these organizations are seeking scalability, disaster avoidance, and cost savings.
I'll buy in on scalability and cost savings. Cassandra can handle immense scale with replication and redundancy across multiple, global data centers. As for costs, we reported on one DataStax customer that spent about $250,000 to build an application that they estimated would have cost $2.5 million to build on their incumbent relational database.
But the whole idea of presenting NoSQL as a replacement for relational databases struck me as a big reach... I think the "we're ready to replace Oracle" yarn was great for generating publicity. It reminds me of Cloudera's recent "unaccept the status quo" claim that the "center of gravity" is shifting toward Hadoop...
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