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## 14 Introduction to SQL for Oracle NoSQL Database

SQL for Oracle NoSQL Database is an easy to use SQL-like language that supports read-only queries and data definition (DDL) statements. This chapter focuses on the query part of the language.

For a detailed description of the language (both DDL and query statements), see SQL Reference Guide.

To follow along query examples run with the interactive shell, see SQL Beginner's Guide.

This section talks about using SQL through the JAVA API.