Stefan Kleineikenscheidt on Integration Architecture and Engineering

2009: Databases and Persistence

Filed under: Java, Engineering, Architecture

2009 will be interesting. In this series of posts, I publish some thoughts/wishes about technological improvements in 2009. Previous entries: Really Rich Internet Applications, Easy JavaScript for Everyone.

Before I go on, let me state: Relational Databases will continue to stay as the backbone of persistence.

BUT: Non-relational databases will become more popular this year. Examples include document oriented data stores^[1] or as graphs databases^[2]. Also, it will become more popular to split storage and search. This will allow more flexibility and search performance. E.g. store your data in different data stores, and keep a local index/copy for searching^[3].

[1] Couch DB
[2] Neo DB
[3] Read this blog (and comments) for a very nice overview.

Jan 6, 2009 at 08:11 | Permalink