If you can get hold of a copy of the print magazine, read it, there are several interesting articles and thought provoking facts on the subject of the amount of data there is in the world, and what we can do with it.

Last night I was at a talk in central London on exactly this topic.

This is a great little summary article of most of the non-relational data store paradigms around and some good links to examples of the software that implement them:

Relational databases, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL and various commercial products, have served us well for many years. Lately, however, there has been a lot of discussion on whether the relational model is reaching the end of its life-span, and what may come after it.

Should you care? Which database technology should you be using?