NoSQL Nirvana... A Wish List.

The feature demands for NoSQL databases are increasing, many of it to catch up or merge the ones already in RDBMS. Here's the holiday wish list for a NoSQL Nirvana database.

NoSQL Nirvana = SQL API+

NoSQL API +

Graph Database

Flexible Schema +

Spatial +

Timeseries +

Text Indexing +

Hybrid Access +

Distributed Joins (and optimizer) +

ACID Transaction +

BASE support+

Scale UP (SMP) +

Scale out (web-scale, MPP) +

High Availability & Seamless Failover +

Mostly self-tuned & managed +

Tooling for SMP & MPP (stats,admin,archive) +

Storage (compression,row,columnar) +

Business Intelligence Tools +

In-Memory database +

In-Database Analytics +

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