I don’t think this should be cause for celebration in the NoSQL extremist community, since Oracle appears to have mostly rebranded its Berkeley DB; it’s a product name change, not a product line recalc
Did we really believe that one size fits all for database problems? If we ever did, the last three years have made it clear that the model was broken. I've got nothing against SQL (well, actually, I do, but that's purely personal), and I'm willing to admit that relational databases solve many, maybe even most, of the database problems out there. But just as it's clear that the universe is a more complicated place than physicists thought it was in 1990, it's also clear that there are data problems that don't fit 20-year-old models. NoSQL doesn't use any particular model for storing data; it represents the ability to think about and choose your data architecture. It's important to see Oracle recognize this. The company's announcement isn't just a validation of key-value stores, but of the entire discussion of database architecture.
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