DBMS: modern languidness in historical perspective

Abstract

The problem of storage and processing of big data, the main part of which presented unstructured information, led to the development of NoSQL databases, which have rapidly gained popularity among researchers and users. Some of them once even expressed an opinion that traditional relational databases would become obsolete. Is it indeed so? Would newfangled NoSQL DBMS respond to the challenges currently facing the data management systems? In the present paper we are addressing these issues.