This traditional database platforms, known as relational database management systems (RDBMS) all use a language called SQL (structured query language).

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By entering certain strings of text into user input boxes on Web sites, cybercriminals are able to confuse their commands with data in a site's Structured Query Language (SQL) database and gain control of it, says Grossman.

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To build the bridge between SQL and MapReduce, Aster has created three keyword extensions to SQL, which allow users to extend queries through a modeling capability that simplifies the necessary language for creating a MapReduce query.

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