>>If you read the entire paper, you'll see the rather obvious conclusion that relational/analytic DBs are still the best choice for almost all LOB applications.

What interested me was that if you perform a NoSQL analysis of all available literature (aka a Google search) you'll see there are lots of other papers being written and there's growing interest in NoSQL BI. This stuff is evolving *very* quickly.

>>NoSQL is (at best) a marginal niche player, for content managment DBs. And even then, its shortcomings (like lack of geospatial support) are harming its cause. It's traction is questionable. I didn't say it didn't have any merit - I AM saying there are more interesting topics right now.

That's not quite what you said, but OK. As for traction: I gave a few examples including uses that many/most people here will rely on every day. If customers have data that may not be a great fit for a RDBMS, people here might be well-advised to perform a NoSQL Analysis of the available literature to see whether there is a revenue opportunity. Obviously this is not a suggestion that people should try to change the accounting system to NoSQL- we can wait for Intuit to take the lead on that one.