SQL - Alternatives

Alternatives

A distinction should be made between alternatives to relational query languages and alternatives to SQL. Below are proposed relational alternatives to SQL. See navigational database and NoSQL for alternatives to relational:

  • .QL - object-oriented Datalog
  • 4D Query Language (4D QL)
  • Datalog
  • HTSQL - URL based query method
  • IBM Business System 12 (IBM BS12) - one of the first fully relational database management systems, introduced in 1982
  • ISBL
  • Java Persistence Query Language (JPQL) - The query language used by the Java Persistence API and Hibernate persistence library
  • JoSQL - Runs SQL statements written as Strings to query collections from inside Java code.
  • LINQ - Runs SQL statements written like language constructs to query collections directly from inside .Net code.
  • Object Query Language
  • OttoQL
  • QBE (Query By Example) created by Moshè Zloof, IBM 1977
  • Quel introduced in 1974 by the U.C. Berkeley Ingres project.
  • Tutorial D
  • SBQL - the Stack Based Query Language (SBQL)
  • UnQL - the Unstructured Query Language, a functional superset of SQL, developed by the authors of SQLite and CouchDB
  • XQuery

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