What SQL’s co-creator sees in NoSQL

[Kent Sharkey]

Datanami[^]:

As the co-creator of Structured Query Language (SQL), Don Chamberlin knows a thing or two about pulling data out of relational databases. So when he spoke at the user conference for NoSQL database vendor Couchbase last week, it raised a few eyebrows.

A lack of pretty rows and columns?

[j snooze]

I know one time I told my wife she painted her eye brows on too high. She looked surprised.

[Bernhard Hiller]

What about taking a look not only at JSON, but also at the Hierarchical Database paradigm, as it was typical of the 1960ies in programming languages like MUMPS? Having worked with such a dinosaur long ago, I see more similarities between JSON and hierarchical dbs than between JSON and relational dbs.

Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!

[Dan Neely]

Because JSON is the hierarchical cluster :elephant: data model know to several orders of magnitude more devs these days than any pre-sql relic. :rolleyes:

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt