It still is "databases that do not do SQL". Having a SQL-esque query language is very far from the implications of "doing SQL": - Any external software that r

It still is "databases that do not do SQL". Having a SQL-esque query language is very far from the implications of "doing SQL": - Any external software that relies on SQL (not a similar language that looks like but it isn't) won't work. - Any tool which expects SQL and expects SQL-based drivers (like JDBC, for instance) won't neither work. - SQL is a huge standard with a significant number of features. This semi-SQL interfaces, at best, implement a tiny part of that used to be SQL 92, a standard by the Windows 3.1 era. So not a big deal if you compare with modern SQL implementations in databases like PostgreSQL. So I think they are still very bound by the definition that they don't do SQL.