SQL atop an unstructured datastore, with minimal metadata. Something of an innovation, not a traditional RDBMS, but yes - still SQL :)
The nice thing about HIVE is - you're not limited to just SQL, though. You can still analyze your files on HDFS any whichaway, with Pig, with your own MapReduce jobs, whatever. Personally though, I look forward to Apache Pig getting SQL, and being able to run SQL queries on any intermediate state of a Pig script.
I don't think that anyone is really complaining about SQL. SQL is a swell query language for certain kinds of data. They're complaining about static schemas in relational dbs and having to store objects via SQL - reasonable complaints.
I don't think that anyone is really complaining about SQL. They're complaining about relational dbs.
Actually I suspect Mr. Wiggins is really only complaining about problems with MySQL and PostgreSQL. He would be less inaccurate if he admitted as much rather than making sweeping uninformed claims about SQL and relational systems.
The nice thing about HIVE is - you're not limited to just SQL, though. You can still analyze your files on HDFS any whichaway, with Pig, with your own MapReduce jobs, whatever. Personally though, I look forward to Apache Pig getting SQL, and being able to run SQL queries on any intermediate state of a Pig script.
I don't think that anyone is really complaining about SQL. SQL is a swell query language for certain kinds of data. They're complaining about static schemas in relational dbs and having to store objects via SQL - reasonable complaints.