Getting started with NoSQL Database Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

This morning I discovered a new entry in the menu on my Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Tenancy (on Ashburn, USA): the NoSQL Database service had been added overnight.

The service offers a key-(schema-less) document store. It also supports ACID transactions, SQL on JSON documents, joins across tables, structured tables and if needed also relaxed (eventual) consistency. This is NoSQL in the “Not Only” SQL sense of the term, because there is quite a bit of “SQL” (ACID, structured, relational and SQL)…