Microsoft reveals Data Explorer tool, gets into the sorbet business (video) MongoDB. Cassandra vs MongoDB vs CouchDB vs Redis vs Riak vs HBase comparison. (Yes it's a long title, since people kept asking me to write about this and that too :) I do when it has a point.)
While SQL databases are insanely useful tools, their monopoly in the last decades is coming to an end. And it's just time: I can't even count the things that were forced into relational databases, but never really fitted them.