[Note: Amir Halfon is a frequent blogger at FinExtra, a site devoted to the financial technology community. Following is an adaptation from his blog post of January 4.]

In an earlier post, I wrote about the differences between NoSQL, what it is, what it isn’t, and some of the misconceptions surrounding it. First I touched on the Operational Trade Store. Now I will focus on enterprise reference data management. While reference data has a very specific meaning in Financial Services – i.e.