Hmm... there are different query APIs to all the NoSQL variants? What stops you from doing a one-liner from shell (or a short throw-away program) instead of a

Hmm... there are different query APIs to all the NoSQL variants? What stops you from doing a one-liner from shell (or a short throw-away program) instead of a SQL query/update? (Well, except for the power of SQL compared to the APIs, of course.) Disclaimer: I don't know enough about these newfangled things and their tradeoffs to have a serious opinion. They do look intriguing. :-)