SQL has dominated data querying for decades. Newer query languages offer more elegance, simplicity, and flexibility for modern use cases.

Couchbase announced a new language called N1QL that allows SQL queries over JSON data stored in its NoSQL document-oriented database.

The widely used Structured Query Language is gaining new life as a standard data access method for Big Data.

Microsoft has open sourced the Java language extension it added to SQL Server 2019 last year. Language extensions are used in SQL Server to allow users to execute code externally for queries. The ...

SWObjects can also rewrite SPARQL queries in SQL, effectively including relational databases alongside SPARQL endpoints in a linked data federation.