![]() Knowledgeable relational database users charge that NoSQL systems "take normalization beyond any level I've ever heard of before," noted Bosworth. As a matter of fact, when he tells older DBAs that Toad for Cloud will enable them to bridge systems, they ask, "Why in the world would you want to do that? They have a dazed look in their eyes." You need to understand both and then you need to write a lot of code," said Bosworth. "Today it's a very non-trivial task to write a query across SQL and NoSQL data sources. The attitude has kept those skilled in SQL from exchanging ideas with NoSQL spokesmen. They think that the future is in their hands and the day of the relational database has passed. A few NoSQL thinkers and developers say NoSQL systems will work inside the enterprise alongside and as a complement to relational databases.īut there's still a dose of attitude among many early users of NoSQL systems as they gather at their first conferences and shows. Quest is thus one of the few relational database tool vendors trying to bridge the gap between strongly entrenched relational systems and the up-and-coming NoSQL systems. Some of them are also Oracle database users, said Billy Boswort, general manager of Quest's database unit, as Oracle OpenWorld got under way in San Francisco. As a matter of fact, Quest claims to have over a million Toad users and 20% of them are application developers. On the one hand, Toad can now be used for traditional database application development inside the Eclipse open source programmer's workbench, where it fits into a familiar integrated development environment used by millions of Java programmers. Toad, the tool, formerly known as the Tool for Oracle Application Developers, in fact has undertaken a two-pronged approach to enlarging Toad's role in building database apps in a changing world. ![]() Quest Software's database unit, maker of the popular Toad programming tool, is trying to bridge the gap between traditional relational database programmers and the NoSQL systems that seem to defy most of the tenets they've lived by for 20 years. (click for larger image and for full photo gallery) Image Gallery: Yahoo!'s Hadoop Implementation
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