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Re:NuoDB another NewSQL database. by zzzeek on Monday November 07, 2011 @01:18PM (#3207473)
> Your example of ORMs is on spot: do you really need SQL as the back end of an ORM? If not, why pay the relational tax?

That would be because "ORM" stands for "Object Relational Mapper".

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Re:NuoDB another NewSQL database. by shin_lao on Monday November 07, 2011 @01:55PM (#3207620)
What I was implying is that the database back-end does not necessarily have to be relational for this to be done.
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