the whole debate always seems very confused to me. SQL refers to the language with which you interact with a database, NoSQL refers to the database system itsel

the whole debate always seems very confused to me. SQL refers to the language with which you interact with a database, NoSQL refers to the database system itself and it's normally used as opposed to traditional RDBSs. So really the debate should be either SQL vs NON-SQL interfaces or RDBS vs NoSQL databases. Also NoSQL meaning "not only SQL" means SQL can be a subset of NoSQL, so the debate is over. Really we should review the terminology of this entire subject...