Last month, Oracle unveiled Big Data SQL, a tool that can run a SQL query against Oracle’s data store, as well as Hadoop and NoSQL stores. The software is an option for the Big Data Appliance.

The place to be Donald Chamberlin (pictured), the visionary behind SQL, is now championing NoSQL. After celebrating SQL's half-century, he reckons that NoSQL is the way to go for stuff that ...

CrateDB gets two major advantages from the NoSQL side. One is support for unstructured data via JSON documents and BLOB storage, with JSON data queryable through SQL as well.

SQL Query Capability - Enables SQL queries on NoSQL Cassandra data. Cassandra 2.x Compatibility - Leverages the faster performance and improved security of Cassandra V2.x.

Meijer and Bierman claim that NoSQL could benefit from the same standardization. “Just as Codd’s discovery of relational algebra as a formal basis for SQL … propelled a billion-dollar industry around ...