Hmm...Phoenix has been available for some time. Is there a reason its on the front page of HN now? (new release? significant new adopters?) It's interesting ho

Hmm...Phoenix has been available for some time. Is there a reason its on the front page of HN now? (new release? significant new adopters?) It's interesting how the NoSQL movement spawned a chorus of 'SQL/relational db's are dead' [0] in the tech media world. Now you're seeing both basic and advanced SQL interfaces roll out for the leading NoSQL technologies including HBase (this thread), Couchbase [1], Cassandra (although limited) [2], and there's even some effort in MongoDB to at least map SQL commands to mongo DM operations [3]. In addition to that, open source data management frameworks like spark[4] and hadoop[5] are even putting significant effort in that area. I hope I'm not stating the obvious, but all this data suggests that SQL will be a key component in the future of data management. 0: http://www.iheavy.com/2013/12/30/sql-databases-dead/ http://www.iheavy.com/2013/12/30/sql-databases-dead/ (just one example, you'll find many more if you google it) 1: http://www.couchbase.com/press-releases/unql-query-language http://www.couchbase.com/press-releases/unql-query-language 2: http://cassandra.apache.org/doc/cql/CQL.html http://cassandra.apache.org/doc/cql/CQL.html 3: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/sql-comparison/ http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/sql-comparison/ 4: http://shark.cs.berkeley.edu/ http://shark.cs.berkeley.edu/ 5: http://hive.apache.org/ http://hive.apache.org/