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In a blog post following a recent report by the 451 Group, Matthew Aslett, a senior analyst for the research firm, defines a new breed of SQL database-related products he labels as “NewSQL”.

According to the 451 Group, NewSQL refers to “various new scalable/high performance relational database products and services which are designed to bring the benefits of the relational model to distributed architectures or to improve the performance of relational databases…”