Unified NoSQL Query Language Launched 194
splitenz writes "Hoping to unify the growing but disparate market of NoSQL databases, the creators behind CouchDB and SQLite have introduced a new query language for the format, called UnQL (Unstructured Data Query Language — .PS). It has Microsoft's backing."
Re:Just in time! (Score:3, Interesting)
"Fast-forward to the 2000s and 2010s."
This is the issue, fast forwarding to 2010 we are dealing with scaling and environment issues that your precious relational database cannot solve.
Tell me mr genius how you are going to handle 300k select queries on you mysql database holding 10 million rows, running on a virtual instance with shitty IO. Now add the fact that you have a very limited budget etc.
NoSQL stores are designed to address this sort of scenario not your little app with a hundred concurrent users hanging off of it.
Re:Can somebody explain NoSQLers to me? (Score:4, Interesting)
And then you ha0ve a use case change. Or need to interface with an app written in another language. Or find that *shock* while a certain object is very effective for holding some information, it's a horrible way of storing for query. An object should be designed for the use case at hand, the database should be designed for efficient retrieval for that and future use cases. The two are damned near never the same. Persistence frameworks are a mistake.