By: Bart Baesens, Seppe vanden Broucke
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You asked: Your new Database Management book covers a few decades of evolutions in the database world. Which developments or patterns struck you as the most remarkable in the long run?
Our answer:
The perseverance of SQL is really striking. It survived object-oriented databases and XML databases, and after a while, many of its constructs were even incorporated in these paradigms. More recently, there is considerable irony (and beauty) in the fact that one of the main tendencies of NoSQL development efforts is to mimic the convenient data retrieval and query facilities of, well, SQL-based databases. Solutions for ‘SQL on top of NoSQL’ are all over the place. And let’s not forget: SQL still remains a beautiful language.
