It occurs to me that MySQL started off as a thin SQL wrapper on a NoSQL database: here, have a SELECT and WHERE, but you'd best not JOIN, and forget about trans

It occurs to me that MySQL started off as a thin SQL wrapper on a NoSQL database: here, have a SELECT and WHERE, but you'd best not JOIN, and forget about transactions or referential integrity. Then, over time, they tacked on a few more relational features, but they had yet to solve the hard problems of relational databases. Meanwhile, the people who were originally drawn to MySQL as a dumb-and-quick datastore got frustrated with this line of development and christened the NoSQL movement. It's not so much a departure from relational databases (they were never really there), but a return to MySQL basics, w/out the SQL.