Ask HN: Next Generation Database
I have seen all sorts of different database technologies being touted as the &quot;next generation&quot; database technology over 4 decades. Each has not superseded any of the others. What ends up happening is that a &quot;new&quot; database technology finds an application area for which it is the &quot;best fit&quot; and is then used accordingly. Some of theses application areas can be broad and some can be very specialised.<p>If you can build a usable system and can make a market for it, do so. If you think it has broad application and want it to be ubiquitous with a variety of players (including FOSS systems) providing implementations then release all the relevant implementation and research information.<p>But you first have to decide if you want to give the basic ideas away or whether you want to hold them close to your chest. Until you make that decision, a lot of the questions you have asked are not going to be so answerable. There are consequences for giving the information away and there are consequences for keeping it close to your chest (including patents, trade secrets, etc.)<p>The application fields where you think you technology may be benefited from would require you actually building full-blown demonstrations systems against which you can compare existing technologies. I have seen many different systems over the decades which were simply &quot;flash in the pan&quot; technologies and as such take your comments with a couple of tonnes of sea-salt.<p>If your technology is both viable and worth the price and convincing, you might make it a successful venture.