By Erik Meijer, Gavin Bierman Communications of the ACM, April 2011, Vol. 54 No. 4, Pages 49-58 10.1145/1924421.1924436 Comments (4) Fueled by their promise to solve the problem of distilling valuable information and business insight from big data in a scalable and programmer-friendly way, noSQL databases have been one of the hottest topics in our field recently. With a plethora of open source and