Big Data’s Big Flip-Flop

It wasn’t too long ago that many people espoused the decline, if not death, of the SQL language and relational database technology in general. As a level set, remember that relational technology stores data into rows and columns and that the way to access relational data is through Structured Query Language (SQL). For a couple of years, there was a full frontal assault on relational approaches from the Hadoop and non-relational crowds. The overhead of placing data into pre-defined rows and co...