A Few Words About ‘NoSQL’ and Other Unstructured Databases

Carlo Strozzi coined the term NoSQL (“Not only SQL”) in 1998, referring to a lightweight database that did not expose a SQL interface. In 2009, Eric Evans of Rackspace dredged up the term and its meaning was still being debated by its coiner while organizing an event with Johan Oskarsson of Last.fm to discuss the…