SAN MATEO, CA / ACCESSWIRE / February 9, 2023 / The complexity of data management and data analytics increases day by day as the amount of data grows significantly. One of the serious issues faced by organizations is the decreasing productivity of data analysis due to the fast-growing volume of complex non-flat data, such as JSON or XML. In response to this challenge, Keyark, a Silicon Valley software and technology development firm, has developed the novel KeySQL technology.
According to the company, KeySQL technology is a breakthrough in the handling of non-flat data comparable to the breakthrough achieved by the relational model developed by E.F. Codd for flat data. In 1970, Codd introduced the relational model of data, which brought about a multi-billion dollar industry of SQL databases. This happened because SQL (Structured Query Language) created a disruptive productivity jump in data management. SQL enabled thousands of business analysts and other non-programmers to assemble data and create reports and dashboards. Prior to relational systems, business users needed the help of programmers in data manipulation and creating even simple business reports. The main advantage of the relational model, underlying SQL, is that it forces data into the confines of simple tables and employs relational algebra operations to produce new tables from the existing ones. Codd called it Spartan Simplicity.
However, the advantage of the relational model turned into a critical shortcoming in the internet era. The massive amount of non-flat data generated by businesses became hard to manage using SQL. This gave rise to the NoSQL movement, which offers greater flexibility than Codd's relational model, however it suffers from the lack of a common NoSQL language, and the lack of a solid mathematical basis and operations closure. Therefore, while being more efficient in supporting business operations with non-flat data, NoSQL systems turned out to be not at all friendly for use by non-programmers.
"We have gone full cycle, literally returning to the pre-relational age when business users needed the assistance of programmers to perform analytical data processing functions. In lieu of programmers, businesses now depend on difficult-to-hire data scientists supposed to have the technical skills for extracting information from complex NoSQL data. Instead of a business analyst using SQL, two people are needed, a business analyst and a data scientist proficient in Java, Scala, Python, or other programming languages to speak natively to NoSQL systems. However, KeySQL technology enables an order of magnitude productivity breakthrough in the handling of non-flat data," says Mikhail Gilula, President and CEO of Keyark.
KeySQL makes the bulk of NoSQL data accessible to non-programmers using a still spartan but more flexible data model. It comprises the same high-level data manipulation statements SQL does. At the same time, it can handle data of any complexity. According to the company, KeySQL language is easy to learn yet fully expressive for handling both flat relational data and non-flat NoSQL data. The KeySQL data model is based on the mathematical structure of hereditarily finite sets. Data definition is performed using a single construct called composition. It is the only one needed for producing new data objects from the existing ones. In this sense, it is even more spartan than the relational model.
Commenting on the advantages of this new data model, David Golden, growth engineer at Keyark said "Business users fluent in SQL can grasp the bulk of KeySQL in just a couple of days. Because of the hereditarily finite set foundation, KeySQL uses business friendly bottom-up data definition. In SQL data definition is top-down. Columns exist only within the context of the tables, and a column with the same name in another table can have a different meaning. The construct of composition allows the creation of data objects of any complexity. The flexible schema approach allows the data with different structures to be accessed with a single query."
According to Keyark, complex business objects which would correspond to one or more SQL tables are treated on equal basis with elementary objects and can be retrieved, updated, or deleted by using their names in the corresponding KeySQL statements. KeySQL provides a powerful means of producing new data structures from existing ones. The structural data transformations enable precise targeting for data of interest. In particular KeySQL supports grouping of objects of any complexity by other objects.
About Keyark
Keyark is a software development company headquartered in San Mateo, California, United States, and was founded in 2019. Keyark develops KeySQL technology enabling a productivity breakthrough in NoSQL data analytics. According to the company, this is the most significant innovation in data management since the introduction of relational databases and the SQL language over 50 years ago.
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SOURCE: Keyark