Unified NoSQL Query Language Launched

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."

Obligatory xkcd

[Daetrin]

Standards [xkcd.com]

Not standard, unified.

[pedantic bore]

"So, everyone will use this unified query language?"

"Yes, it'll be great. No need to rewrite things when moving from one database to another."

"Sounds great. Portable apps! Hooray!"

"It amazes me that nobody has ever done anything like this before."

"Yes, in hindsight it's blindingly obvious. There should have been a single query language all along."

"A single query language--we could call it `S-QL` or something like that."

"Nah, I heard that there's already something called SQL. People would get them confused."

"Why? They're probably totally different things."

"Yeah, probably. It's better to make up new names than to risk confusion. So, what's it called?"

"Uncle."

"Isn't that what you say when you surrender?"

"Yes, but in this case there's no possibility of confusion."

Re:Can somebody explain NoSQLers to me?

[Anonymous Coward]

Mr Breivik, is that you?