Andrew Oliver write at InfoWorld: The time for NoSQL standards is now – Like Larry Ellison’s yacht, the RDBMS is sailing into the sunset. But if NoSQL is to take its place, a standard query language and APIs must emerge soon.
A bit dramatic for my taste but a good overview of possible areas for standardization for NoSQL.
Problem: NoSQL query languages are tied to the base format/data structure of their implementation.
For that matter, you could say the same thing about SQL. The query language is tied to the data structure.
I am not sure how you can have a query language that isn’t tied to a notion of structure. Even a very abstract one. That a NoSQL implementation could map against its data structure.
Tuples anyone?
Pointers and resources welcome!