Beyond Hadoop: Next-Generation Big Data Architectures By BILL MCCOLL of GigaOm Published: October 23, 2010 After 25 years of dominance, relational databases and SQL have in recent years come under fire from the growing “NoSQL movement.” A key element of this movement is Hadoop, the open-source clone of Google’s internal MapReduce system. Whether it’s interpreted as “No SQL” or “Not Only SQL,” the