As many know, content is getting bigger — way bigger — and this is scary to many technologists. At the same time, it’s also getting smarter. Applications are growing more complex, challenging IT pros as never before. How will these changes impact content management technologies? It’s difficult to predict exactly, but there are insights to be found and used to plan for the future. If there’s one topic that keeps cropping up when it comes to content management, it’s the runaway growth of data and content.
The author astutely describes BigData as an evolution. There is NO good business [read, "economic"] rationale for moving data out of RDBMS stores.
As in the introduction of Relational Database technology in 1977, there was no mad rush to convert existing databases. Here we are over 40 years later and there are still some IMS databases in production use.
BigData will become the dominant data store technology. On that road, as in the last paradigm data management shift, existing RDBMS stores will be part of the landscape for a long time to come.
The business challenge, as noted by the author, is the deployment of robust content [structured and unstructured] management systems incorporating both the existing world and the new world. These tools are now coming to market and will propel the adoption of BigData.
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Big Data's Big Challenges for Content Management
Posted by: Eric Barroca January 25, 2012 05:00 AMAs many know, content is getting bigger — way bigger — and this is scary to many technologists. At the same time, it’s also getting smarter. Applications are growing more complex, challenging IT pros as never before. How will these changes impact content management technologies? It’s difficult to predict exactly, but there are insights to be found and used to plan for the future. If there’s one topic that keeps cropping up when it comes to content management, it’s the runaway growth of data and content.
As in the introduction of Relational Database technology in 1977, there was no mad rush to convert existing databases. Here we are over 40 years later and there are still some IMS databases in production use.
BigData will become the dominant data store technology. On that road, as in the last paradigm data management shift, existing RDBMS stores will be part of the landscape for a long time to come.
The business challenge, as noted by the author, is the deployment of robust content [structured and unstructured] management systems incorporating both the existing world and the new world. These tools are now coming to market and will propel the adoption of BigData.