Yeah, I think that's good. It's kind of like the term "Modernism," which makes no inherent sense but made sense when it was coined as a response to particular s

Yeah, I think that's good. It's kind of like the term "Modernism," which makes no inherent sense but made sense when it was coined as a response to particular styles that came before it and were seen as, well, not modern enough. (Art people will tell me I'm wrong, but close enough.) NoSQL refers to the databases that are proposed as alternatives in areas where programming culture had gotten used to thinking that the only solution was an ACID-compliant relational database. It means, "hey, this isn't the model you're used to, but give it a try anyway." You can't figure out the word without knowing the culture it emerged from. And now I'm getting post-modern.