The evolving market for NoSQL Databases

Roberto V. Zicari, editor of www.odbms.org interviewed James Phillips, Co-Founder and Senior Vice President of Couchbase , the new company that originated from the merge of Membase and CouchOne.

The interview focuses on the evolution of the NoSQL database market. James Phillis explains the rational for the development of new Proprietary data platforms such as Amazon's Dynamo and Google's BigTable, and the subsequent advent of Open Source Developments, such as Apache Cassandra and Hadoop (MapReduce, Hive, Pig).

Janes further explains the reasoning for the merge between Membase and CouchOne to form Couchbase.

When asked how does he see the NoSQL market evolving in the next 12 months, James Phillips concludes the interview by saying:

"It is possible we will see standards begin to emerge, both in on-the-wire protocols and perhaps in query languages, allowing interoperability between NoSQL database technologies similar to the kind of interoperability we've seen with SQL and relational database technology."

Here is the full text of the interview