编辑“︁NoSQL”︁（章节）

== 发展历史 ==
NoSQL一词最早出现于1998年，是Carlo Strozzi开发的一个轻量、开源、不提供SQL功能的关系数据库<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fulltext/123839.pdf
|title = Investigating storage solutions for large data: A comparison of well performing and scalable data storage solutions for real time extraction and batch insertion of data
|first = Adam
|last = Lith
|coauthors = Jakob Mattson
|year = 2010
|publisher = Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology
|location = Göteborg
|pages = 15, 70
|format = PDF
|accessdate = 2011-05-12
|quote = Carlo Strozzi first used the term NOSQL in 1998 as a name for his open source relational database that did not offer a SQL interface[...]
|postscript = 
|archive-date = 2011-08-16
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110816023945/http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fulltext/123839.pdf
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}}</ref>。

2009年，Last.fm的Johan Oskarsson发起了一次关于分布式开源数据库的讨论<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blog.sym-link.com/2009/05/12/nosql_2009.html |title=NOSQL 2009 |publisher=Blog.sym-link.com |date=2009-05-12 |accessdate=2010-03-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716174012/http://blog.sym-link.com/2009/05/12/nosql_2009.html |archive-date=2011-07-16 |dead-url=yes }}</ref>，来自Rackspace的Eric Evans再次提出了NoSQL的概念，这时的NoSQL主要指非关系型、分布式、不提供[[ACID]]的数据库设计模式。

2009年在亚特兰大举行的「no:sql(east)」讨论会是一个里程碑，其口号是「select fun, profit from real_world where relational=false;」。因此，对NoSQL最普遍的解释是“非关聯型的”，强调[[键-值存储]]和[[面向文档数据库]]的优点，而不是单纯的反对RDBMS。

基于2014年的收入，NoSQL市场领先企业是{{link-en|MarkLogic|MarkLogic}}，[[MongoDB]]和{{link-en|Datastax|DataStax}}<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2015-11-17|url=http://wikibon.com/hadoop-nosql-software-and-services-market-forecast-2013-2017/|title=Hadoop-NoSQL-rankings|archive-date=2015-11-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151118191106/http://wikibon.com/hadoop-nosql-software-and-services-market-forecast-2013-2017/|dead-url=no}}</ref>。基于2015年的人气排名，最受欢迎的NoSQL数据库是[[MongoDB]]，[[Apache Cassandra]]和[[Redis]]<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2015-07-31|url=http://db-engines.com/en/ranking|title=DB-Engines Ranking|archive-date=2020-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200221093447/https://db-engines.com/en/ranking|dead-url=no}}</ref>。