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How about this 4-letter acronym: NSQL (Native Storage Query Language)?

• tmountain 17y ago
  I think this might be a misnomer in that NoSQL in the general sense describes a set of technologies acting as value stores rather than a standardized language for accessing said values.
  • vicaya 17y ago
    Native storage query language implies using native i.e., non-standardized query language and API. It's an categorical acronym like AJAX.
    • scott_s 17y ago
      There's a difference between SQL and RDBMS. One can interact with a relational database using a "non-standardized query language and API." Part of the problem is that people are conflating the language abstraction of SQL with the physical relationship of the data.
• zck 17y ago
  I like the name posted by someone in the comments -- NoTable.
  • btilly 17y ago
    So Bigtable would be a NoTable storage system? I think not!
    • davidmathers 17y ago
      Exactly. Relation != Table. Tables can represent things other than relations.