Oracle buys Tangosol -- Beginning of the end for RDBMS

<delurk>

I found the following announcement from Oracle very interesting and
wanted to share it with the relational weenies here:

Oracle Buys In Memory Data Grid Leader Tangosol
(http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2007_mar/tangosol.html)

It's particularly interesting because Tangosol does not have a SQL
interface. Clearly there are some application domains that Oracle
itself realizes it can't handle.

There are already comments from Oracle employees and users:
http://www.dbms2.com/2007/03/25/oracle-tangosol-objects-caching-and-disruption/
http://preferisco.blogspot.com/2007/03/cache-in-bank-oracle-buys-tangosol.html
http://patricklogan.blogspot.com/2007/03/meet-new-boss.html

The last one links to a blog with the comment:
"Oracle's acquisition of Tangosol is one more acquisition in a series
that indicates Oracle has finally come to the conclusion that the
relational database is no longer a sufficient infrastructure platform
for a large class of applications, such as Extreme Transaction
Processing (XTP) and real-time analytics."

Let's repeat that: The relational approach is no longer sufficient
for "a large class of applications." Seems like Oracle doesn't agree
with the views of some of the more vocal table lovers in comp.object.

Sean

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