There are two interesting papers:

“One Size Fits All”: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone (local copy)
The End of an Architectural Era (It’s Time for a Complete Rewrite) (local copy)

Both papers try to argue that it’s time to break with the mostly religious belief, that traditional Relational-DBMS
architectures – once designed for business data [...]

Your little start-up Sones (located in Erfurt) made it under the first German 20 start-ups !
I blogged about this election by the INTERNET WORLD Business newspaper some time ago, but now it’s your chance to support us. Just click on the following link and give us your vote

Update: The competition is also [...]

For the last months I’m working for a small start-up called “SONES GmbH” located in Erfurt Germany. The goals of the company is to develop new search technologies respecting the fact that the normal SQL-based way of storing information within fixed tables is not the best solution for a large bunch of new applications [...]