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GlennS on May 2, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Oracle and the End of Programming as We Know It

I think you would really struggle to find adequate replacements for relational databases in at least two areas: reporting and ad-hoc queries.

viraptor on May 3, 2012 [–]

Mongodb has ad-hoc queries (not as simple as SQL, but still). Many engines can run huge aggregated queries (hadoop?)

But I think the problem is placed in the wrong place. If SQL the language/API is copyrighted, then isn't it easier produce a new API with the same functionality?)

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