In this month's E-Edition of DBTA, Quest Software's Guy Harrison debuts a new bi-monthly column, "Notes on NoSQL."

According to Harrison, NoSQL is probably the hottest term in database technology today but was unheard of only a year ago. "And yet, today, there are literally dozens of database systems described as ‘NoSQL,' " he notes. "How did all of this happen so quickly?" Read the article here.

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