SQL, the Underestimated Big Data Technology

In the past decade, RDBMS related traction has moved away completely in the Java world from SQL towards JPA / JPQL, or even further, towards NoSQL. Evangelists have widely agreed that RDBMS are not “web scale”, even if the race is far from being decided.



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