SQL has dominated data querying for decades. Newer query languages offer more elegance, simplicity, and flexibility for modern use cases. For the last three decades, databases and Structured Query ...

The ease and ubiquity of SQL have even led the creators of many “NoSQL” or non-relational data stores, such as Hadoop, to adopt subsets of SQL or come up with their own SQL-like query languages.

The original SQL paper was first published in May 1974 by Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce and goes through a set of commands that can be used to work with data and provide those results back ...