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> Unfortunately, we never actually tried to kill SQL. We tried to kill relational databases, with the death of SQL as a side effect.

I don’t know who “we” is, but, before NoSQL tried to replace RDBMS(well, starting before, these things overlapped it), there were efforts to provide alternatives to SQL for RDBMSs, some examples:

Query-by-Example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_by_Example

the D class of data languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(data_language_specification...



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