The inaugural get-together of the burgeoning NoSQL community crammed 150 attendees into a meeting room at CBS Interactive.

Like the Patriots, who rebelled against Britain's heavy taxes, NoSQLers came to share how they had overthrown the tyranny of slow, expensive relational databases in favor of more efficient and cheaper ways of managing data.

New data storages getting more and more attention especially from new projects which manage huge amounts of data. Conventional projects still use SQL and RDBMS though, and while it requires fair amount of overhead, it does not force rethinking and redesigning of the common data storage approach, since it is rather simple to work with.

But things are changing.

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