Want faster SQL queries? Here are nine best practices for writing SQL queries that work like a charm (or at least, like they should).

Spark SQL, part of Apache Spark big data framework, is used for structured data processing and allows running SQL like queries on Spark data.

Apache Phoenix: Its developers call it a “SQL skin for HBase” — a way to query HBase with SQL-like commands via an embeddable JDBC driver built for high performance and read/write operations.

Enabling SQL-style queries With Enumerable constructor you have to use query methods, but to write queries in SQL-like format, JSINQ provides with jsinq.Query constructor.

Yahoo Query Language, or YQL, is a new Web service API that lets programmers access other Web services using a SQL-like language.

Lovefield is a JavaScript library providing an SQL-like query engine to web developers who want the benefits of a relational database.