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Back when Foursquare made MongoDB famous someone posted a PoC of a NoSQL DB implemented in MySQL. It did not seem to have caught on, but it did make me think of how much performance is traded for helping us not to reinvent SQL every time we need a DB. I like experiments like this one, they sometimes lead to new projects.

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MySQL is NoSQL: https://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise/document_store.htm...

I believe DynamoDB uses MySQL under the hood as it’s storage engine. Or, if it doesn’t currently that it did for several years.

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To parent: I think all datastores can boil down to a SQL interface eventually. Someday a SQL-interface may dynamically choose a bespoke backend for your schema (or even sub-schema!)

Isn't this a forum about curiosity and learning?

Your comment provides nothing to the conversation, wich is the user Redis reimplementation in SQL.

From what I could find, I didn't break any rule, whlist teaching an user something he didn't know. Win win?

Indeed, they can. It's interesting that some noSQL projects add a stripped down SQL API eventually.

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