sja solarwinds already uses things like nosql DB's and other open source tools. It is not a 100% SQL shop. I wish the main DB had options outside of SQL, though. Netflow's fastbit is a nosql DB, and rabbitMQ is a message broker designed to handle huge amounts of data being sent from A to B, such as from another nosql DB to the main DB.
So Orion is 100% built to handle that *today*. Question is whether they'd want to set up Orion to manage telemetry as a result of the data.