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Unified NoSQL Query Language Launched

Posted by timothy on from the ontogeny-recapitulates-phylogeny dept.

splitenz writes "Hoping to unify the growing but disparate market of NoSQL databases, the creators behind CouchDB and SQLite have introduced a new query language for the format, called UnQL (Unstructured Data Query Language — .PS). It has Microsoft's backing."

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  1. Re:Can somebody explain NoSQLers to me? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Have you ever used a relational database?

    Every NoSQL approach, be it document-oriented, key-value storage, or the various hybrid approaches, can be very easily implemented using relational techniques. In fact, they are all just subsets of the relational model. Key-value storage is merely a two-column table, for instance.

    Basically every decent relational database system today allows you to easily partition your data in almost any way possible. It's trivial to store or replicate a single table's data cross hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of storage and processing nodes.

    Relational databases work very well for storing hierarchical data, as well. Recursive common table expressions make it extremely easy to work with such data.

    There's just no reason to use a NoSQL database. Relational databases can do everything a NoSQL database can, and then a fuck of a lot more.