Earlier quoted context omitted.
he's describing voltdb (that he built)
plus MemSQL, a YC company =)
Two others are Google Spanner [1] and FoundationDB [2].
[1] see http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/9/24/google-spanners-mo...
Fifty Years of Databases (2012)
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Re: Fifty Years of Databases (2012)
#12IDS: The first NoSQL data store? In 1962 (sigmod.org) 1 point by yorp 3 minutes ago | flag | cached | share | discuss NoSQL doesn't appear anywhere on that page. The title should be Fifty Years of Databases (2012)
So noSQL was absoleted by relational databases in '80
It's hard to say, really. People were using a lot of non-SQL (read: row-based) databases well into the 1990s.