This article is really terrible, and it's sad because most of the pieces of software discussed are at least interesting. Several are indispensable to anybody in

This article is really terrible, and it's sad because most of the pieces of software discussed are at least interesting. Several are indispensable to anybody in the business of dealing with PB-scale data. (I'm pretty sure Hadoop is seeing healthy enterprise adoption.) That said, I think that calling the whole event NoSQL was kind of asking for it; of course people are going to try to squeeze some drama out of that stone. (I would have gone to the meetup anyway, though, if I hadn't already been booked.)