<story><title>Google Spanner&apos;s Most Surprising Revelation: NoSQL is Out and NewSQL is In</title><url>http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/9/24/google-spanners-most-surprising-revelation-nosql-is-out-and.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chc</author><text>In case you aren&apos;t aware, nostrademons is a Googler. He is pretty well-qualified to dismiss it in this particular case.</text></item><item><author>pron</author><text>High Scalability is a serious and informative blog, and I wouldn&apos;t dismiss it. This isn&apos;t TechCrunch. Its focus is less on rigorous scientific analysis of a narrow field, but a good, moderately deep, overview of anything to do with data scaling. And it&apos;s doing a darn good job.</text></item><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>It&apos;s really funny to watch tech journalists try to write about Google infrastructure from the outside, based only on one paper...&lt;p&gt;Hell, it&apos;s usually really funny just to watch tech journalists try to write.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lrobb</author><text>He might be... But just because you&apos;re one of the thousands of engineers at google, that doesn&apos;t make you automatically qualified.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Spanner&apos;s Most Surprising Revelation: NoSQL is Out and NewSQL is In</title><url>http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/9/24/google-spanners-most-surprising-revelation-nosql-is-out-and.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chc</author><text>In case you aren&apos;t aware, nostrademons is a Googler. He is pretty well-qualified to dismiss it in this particular case.</text></item><item><author>pron</author><text>High Scalability is a serious and informative blog, and I wouldn&apos;t dismiss it. This isn&apos;t TechCrunch. Its focus is less on rigorous scientific analysis of a narrow field, but a good, moderately deep, overview of anything to do with data scaling. And it&apos;s doing a darn good job.</text></item><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>It&apos;s really funny to watch tech journalists try to write about Google infrastructure from the outside, based only on one paper...&lt;p&gt;Hell, it&apos;s usually really funny just to watch tech journalists try to write.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ArbitraryLimits</author><text>Is he similarly well-qualified to dismiss an entire profession?</text></comment>