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Comment by tzury | Hacker News Reader

the left side reads "Embedded NoSQL database for .NET"

the right sides shows

   SELECT title, year, genres FROM movies...

NoSQL stands for Not only SQL... It does not mean No SQL.

That definitely has shifted in meaning over the years then. I remember when the selling point of these DBs was the exclusion of SQL.

It's a really overloaded term these days. In some cases it's also used as a synonym for document DB's or K/V stores.

Best way to read it nowadays is probably "not like the popular DB's of the 90's".