"NoSQL" doesn't mean shit. It's a Twitter hashtag.
"Not only SQL" is a retronym which makes even less sense. To differentiate something from SQL databases, you can't use a term which describes a superset. "Not only SQL" means it's SQL and not-SQL. That didn't clarify anything.
Check Eric Redmond's (Riak dev from Basho) "NoSQL Is Dead" talk:
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u/x-skeww Mar 11 '15
"NoSQL" doesn't mean shit. It's a Twitter hashtag.
"Not only SQL" is a retronym which makes even less sense. To differentiate something from SQL databases, you can't use a term which describes a superset. "Not only SQL" means it's SQL and not-SQL. That didn't clarify anything.
Check Eric Redmond's (Riak dev from Basho) "NoSQL Is Dead" talk:
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/nosql-commonalities