The paper describes each system and then compares them on the dimensions of Concurrency Control, Data Storage Replication, Transaction Model, General Comments, Maturity, K-hits, License Language.
And the winner is: there are no winners. Yet. Rick concludes by pointing to a great convergence:
I believe that a few of these systems will gain critical mass and key players, and will pull
away from the others by next year. At that point, open source contributors will likely
At Directi, we are taking a hard look at the way our applications need to store and retrieve data, and whether we really need to use a traditional RDBMS for all scenarios. This does not mean that we will eschew relational systems altogether. What it means is that we will use the best tool for the job - we will use non-relational options wherever needed and not throw everything at a relational database with a mindless one-size-fits-all approach.
10:50 AM - 11:50 AM Gateway 104 TS-5354 Exploiting Concurrency with Dynamic Languages Technical Session Tobias Ivarsson, Neo Technology Thursday
June 04
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Gateway 104 TS-5033 Scripting Java™ Technology with JRuby Technical Session Thomas Enebo, Sun Microsystems, Inc. ; Charles Nutter, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Thursday
June 04
2:50 PM - 3:50 PM Gateway 104 TS-3955 Monkeybars: Tools-Enabled Swing Development with JRuby Technical Session…