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## [NoSQL is a term doing us a disservice](https://blog.quasar.ai/2012/02/01/nosql-is-a-term-doing-us-a-disservice)

 Posted by [user](https://blog.quasar.ai/author/user) on 01 Feb 2012

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Although we edit [NoSQL](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoSQL) software, I always disliked calling our product a NoSQL database. I know we say in the third paragraph of [our web page](http://www.wrpme.com/) that wrpme is a NoSQL database, but see, right after it says that we prefer to call it a postmodern database as proposed by [Dr. Richard Hipp](http://www.hwaci.com/drh/).

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