To add validity to their new term "NewSQL" possibly? (I don't know, just guessing). To the "NewSQL" term, I don't really have a problem with it... from their "

To add validity to their new term "NewSQL" possibly? (I don't know, just guessing). To the "NewSQL" term, I don't really have a problem with it... from their "how it works" it sounds like they are genuinely doing something interesting and cool with SQL. I have no qualms with them calling it "NewSQL". I don't know why marketing terms get people so mad, sometimes they make sense. I'd also point out that the first few times people used "NoSQL", I imagine there were comments along these same lines talking about how silly it was. It isn't like they named it "WebScaleSQL" :)