g.britton (8/28/2015)
xsevensinzx (8/28/2015)
...SQL Server 2014 introduced Polybase just for reasons like that
SQL Server has been tightly integrated with various forms of NoSQL data storage and query access for decades. Analysis Services (OLAP Cubes), Text Search, XML datatype with XPath query, FileStream, BLOB storage are all non-relational forms of storage with alternative non-SQL query access methods.
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