NoSQL: Past, Present, and Future

Two years of NoSQL, two years of a roller coaster ride through new ways of scaling, high availability, and storing data. The whole idea of NoSQL started out as a differentiator, as way to put a clear line between new and traditional databases.

But how far apart are they really, two years after the term NoSQL was coined? It's due time to look at the past and into the future on what's in stock for NoSQL, where we're headed with databases, why high scale and big data aren't everything we should strive for, and why NoSQL must die so that databases can live.