Application development in the cloud requires special data models such as schema-less and sometimes typeless databases, and that could lead to a new battleground in which the major players such as Microsoft, IBM and HP will come out with their own data models and back-end platforms. “All the cloud infrastructure players have various data engines behind the scenes,” Al Hilwa, program director of applications development software at IDC, told TechNewsWorld. “Some are SQL and some are not, and these are not all compatible.”
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App Development: New Rules for a New Game, Part 3
Posted by: Richard Adhikari July 1, 2010 05:00 AMApplication development in the cloud requires special data models such as schema-less and sometimes typeless databases, and that could lead to a new battleground in which the major players such as Microsoft, IBM and HP will come out with their own data models and back-end platforms. “All the cloud infrastructure players have various data engines behind the scenes,” Al Hilwa, program director of applications development software at IDC, told TechNewsWorld. “Some are SQL and some are not, and these are not all compatible.”