NoSQL DBMS: A Surprising Inclusion
February 12, 2020
“Top Databases Used in Machine Learning Project” is a listicle. The information in the write up is similar to the lists of “best” products whipped up by Silicon Valley type publications, mid tier consulting firms (a shade off the blue chip outfits like McKinsey, Booz, and BCG), and 20 somethings fresh from university.
The interesting inclusion in the list of DBMS is?
If you said, Elasticsearch you would be correct. Elasticsearch is an open source play doing business as Elastic. The open source version is at its core a search and retrieval system. (Does this mean the index is the data and the database?)
DarkCyber is not going to get into a discussion of whether an enterprise search system can be a database management system. Both sides in the battle are less interested in resolving the fuzzy language than making sales.
Maybe Elasticsearch is just doing what other enterprise search systems have done since the 1980s? Vendors describe search and retrieval as the solution to the world’s data management Wu Flu.
Net net: Without boundaries, why make distinctions? Just close the deal. Distinctions are irrelevant for some business tasks.
Stephen E Arnold, February 12, 2020
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