Most of the noSQL information I've read appears to be more focused on caching, speed, scalability, distribution, etc. To me SQL is a query language, not an RDBM

Most of the noSQL information I've read appears to be more focused on caching, speed, scalability, distribution, etc. To me SQL is a query language, not an RDBMS. "noSQL" is unfortunately misnamed (and rhetorically loaded) although it's much catchier than "noRDBMS".