[wvenable]

NoSQL really means NoRDMS. The SQL language, or lack there of, has little to do with it.

The unfortunate naming leads to this kind of confusion. Probably a technology should never be named for what it is not.

[strbean]

It originally was the name for a non-SQL RDBMS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strozzi_NoSQL

It malappropriated in 2009.

[labster]

This explains a lot about the GNU project.