An Effective Scalable SQL Engine for NoSQL Databases

• Published in: Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems pp. 155 - 168
• Main Authors: Vilaça, Ricardo, Cruz, Francisco, Pereira, José, Oliveira, Rui
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Cloud Computing; Middleware; NoSQL; SQL

NoSQL databases were initially devised to support a few concrete extreme scale applications. Since the specificity and scale of the target systems justified the investment of manually crafting application code their limited query and indexing capabilities were not a major impediment. However, with a...