Re: Community Announcement: NoCOUG 2016 Spring Conference: Where SQL and NoSQL come together (with hands-on labs and cherries on top)

From: Tim Gorman <tim_at_evdbt.com>
Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 09:16:04 -0600
Message-ID: <666e66e1-1446-1349-612a-c5558d8c0a15_at_evdbt.com>



I'd guess that it is not a quote, but an interpretation of actions by Oracle. Why else would they offer a Big Data Appliance based on Hadoop, and support Big Data connectors, etc?

It is one thing to pivot the entire company in a single direction. Oracle Cloud is not "some catching up", but direction for the entire corporate. Oracle has made no pretense to make a "Big Data" their focus.

It is another thing to offer a capability to augment existing capabilities (i.e. Big Data) - this is not a refutation of either relational technology nor an embrace of Big Data and NoSQL, but rather an acknowledgement that the need exists and the capability should be supported.

So interpreting these actions as admission that "/relational database management systems have some catching up to do in certain specialized use-cases such as event processing/" is reasonable, in my opinion.

Just my own US$0.02... maybe there really is an underlying quote in context... :)

On 5/2/16 08:54, Robert Freeman wrote:
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> Can you source this quote from Oracle? I’d be very interested in
> reading it in context….
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> Robert
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> *From:*oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
> [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] *On Behalf Of *Iggy Fernandez
> *Sent:* Monday, May 02, 2016 2:43 AM
> *To:* oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> *Subject:* OT: Community Announcement: NoCOUG 2016 Spring Conference:
> Where SQL and NoSQL come together (with hands-on labs and cherries on top)
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> The inventor of relational theory, Dr. Edgar Codd, had the last word
> on NoSQL more than thirty years ago when he said “Only if the
> performance requirements are extremely severe should buyers rule out
> present relational DBMS products.” The bottom line is that Oracle
> professionals need to learn about NoSQL since, as admitted by Oracle
> Corporation, relational database management systems have some catching
> up to do in certain specialized use-cases such as event processing.
> Our conference director has therefore created a fabulous agenda
> <http://nocoug.org/download/2016-05/NOCOUG_Spring2016_agenda.pdf>
> combining the best of SQL and NoSQL (with hands-on labs and cherries
> on top).
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> The conference is free for members and their guests, first-time NoCOUG
> conference attendees, PayPal employees and students. Register at
> http://nocoug.org/rsvp.html
> <http://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnocoug%2Eorg%2Frsvp%2Ehtml&urlhash=w1Id&_t=tracking_anet>.

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