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18th December 2008 - Link Blog

Amazon SimpleDB - Now With Select. So now all three of Yahoo!, Amazon and Google have invented their own SQL-like languages (YQL, SimpleDB and GQL)—though it looks like Yahoo!’s is the only one that attempts to provide joins.

Posted 18th December 2008 at 8:59 am

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