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The difference is, governments were not actively trying to regulate or outlaw NoSQL, unlike cryptocurrencies, so NoSQL did manage to win eventually.

sebazzz 8y ago
Blockchain is of course much wider than cryptocurrencies and is the underlying technology. Blockchain is not being outlawed or discouraged, cryptocurrencies are. The point is that many companies have now a hammer (blockchain) and are seperately searching for a nail to use it with when all they have is screws.
- pdpi 8y ago
  > Blockchain is of course much wider than cryptocurrencies This is a weird position. In the sense that the concept of a "blockchain" is not tied to cryptocurrencies, they're really just an old, well-understood data structure (e.g. the Git datamodel is fundamentally a blockchain, except generalised from a linked list to a DAG), and it's neither novel nor the focus of the current craze. In the sense of a decentralised distributed system, the only fully decentralised consensus layer I know of (Nakamoto consensus) literally depends on being used to host a cryptocurrency for its security guarantees.
- arisAlexis 8y ago
  why are cryptocurrencies outlawed though is a mystery
zzzzzzzza 8y ago
but nosql didn't win? It did find some applications but it didn't really take over the industry or anything.
- gaius 8y ago
  The best NoSQL database around is... Postgres
- zzzcpan 8y ago
  Why do you believe they didn't? It was pretty impossible for them not to win since traditional systems cannot meet availability, latency, performance, scale requirements of applications in the cloud. You can clearly see a complete take over of large scale data storage for example.
LyndsySimon 8y ago
> governments were not actively trying to regulate or outlaw NoSQL ... perhaps they should have ... > so NoSQL did manage to win eventually. post hoc ergo propter hoc I've always been of the belief that the best thing that could happen to a given cryptocurrency is for it to be prohibited by major governments - it would drive it underground, sure, and kill institutional investment... but it would also spur innovation in the areas that are required to make it a truly revolutionary technology.

sebazzz 8y ago

Blockchain is of course much wider than cryptocurrencies and is the underlying technology. Blockchain is not being outlawed or discouraged, cryptocurrencies are. The point is that many companies have now a hammer (blockchain) and are seperately searching for a nail to use it with when all they have is screws.

pdpi 8y ago
> Blockchain is of course much wider than cryptocurrencies This is a weird position. In the sense that the concept of a "blockchain" is not tied to cryptocurrencies, they're really just an old, well-understood data structure (e.g. the Git datamodel is fundamentally a blockchain, except generalised from a linked list to a DAG), and it's neither novel nor the focus of the current craze. In the sense of a decentralised distributed system, the only fully decentralised consensus layer I know of (Nakamoto consensus) literally depends on being used to host a cryptocurrency for its security guarantees.
arisAlexis 8y ago
why are cryptocurrencies outlawed though is a mystery

zzzzzzzza 8y ago

but nosql didn't win? It did find some applications but it didn't really take over the industry or anything.

gaius 8y ago
The best NoSQL database around is... Postgres
zzzcpan 8y ago
Why do you believe they didn't? It was pretty impossible for them not to win since traditional systems cannot meet availability, latency, performance, scale requirements of applications in the cloud. You can clearly see a complete take over of large scale data storage for example.

LyndsySimon 8y ago

> governments were not actively trying to regulate or outlaw NoSQL ... perhaps they should have ... > so NoSQL did manage to win eventually. post hoc ergo propter hoc I've always been of the belief that the best thing that could happen to a given cryptocurrency is for it to be prohibited by major governments - it would drive it underground, sure, and kill institutional investment... but it would also spur innovation in the areas that are required to make it a truly revolutionary technology.