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MUMPS – The Most Important Database You (Probably) Never Heard Of - DataScienceCentral.com

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Summary: What if I told you there’s a database in wide use today that does everything RDBMS and Hadoop can do but is 50 years old? Never heard of MUMPS? Check out these startling facts. If you’ve never heard of MUMPS don’t feel like the lone ranger. A colleague mentioned it to me and drove me to a bit of research. What I found is really astounding. If you’ve been to your doctor or to a hospital, or used an ATM it’s likely that the data was processed and stored in a MUMPS-based system. Despite the fact that 2016 represents its 50th anniversary the original design basics of MUMPS are still meeting commercial needs today and show little evidence of being displaced in healthcare or large financial institutions by either RDBMS or NoSQL. It would not be inaccurate to say that MUMPS is/was NoSQL long before ever becoming a gleam in the eye of Google researchers. A Little Background. Originally designed in 1966 and constantly updated over the years, MUMPS derives its name from Massachus

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