Re:A Year of MongoDB
by zimbatm on Friday May 10, 2013 @04:24PM
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Isn't Google BigQuery a SQL on top of a schemaless database ?
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Well, SQL and NoSQL get thrown around a lot but generally people mean 'standard relational' vs. 'newer, potentially schemaless' DB.
By a 'SQL/NoSQL' view, Cassandra has CQL which isn't ANSI standard but close enough to be a SQL.
It’s a distributed near–real‐time querying system for data at rest that supports subset of SQL.
Google has scalable SQL database called Spanner[1]. They also have a proper NoSQL database called internally Megastore[2] that provides distributed transactions based on entity‐groups on top of BigTable. Also known as High Replication Datastore and available via AppEngine[3].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanner_%28database%29
[2] https://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2011/Papers/CIDR11_Paper32.pdf
[3] And hopefully via Google Compute pending announcement in few days at I/O. That is if Google actually wants their Cloud to succeed.