Vision

We imagine a world without language barriers when dealing with data sources. Why should developers have to treat MySQL any differently than PostgreSQL? Or MongoDB?

What about Facebook? Twitter? Wikipedia? Fundamentally, these services provide data. Why, then, must we treat them differently than traditional databases?

JSON/q aims to unify the way you talk about any data source, allowing you to easily incorporate Facebook data into your business app, join across MySQL and Wikipedia, or join device SMS messages with your in-app messaging.

What is JSON/q?

JSON/q is a JSON-based specification for data access and storage. All operations are, fundamentally, able to be represented as JSON documents. By using JSON messages to represent data operations, JSON/q provides a flexible base layer for building asynchronous language bindings.

Project Goals

The JSON/q project is designed to make developers' lives easier by providing a unified specification for accessing and querying data.

Open Specification

We aim to provide a detailed and open specification for JSON/q. This will enable anyone to build JSONq-compliance into their product whether it is a database, SDK, or web service. This openness will also allow us to easily gather and incorporate feedback from everyone using JSON/q.

Ubiquitous Promotion

The more places a technology exists, the more useful it is. We aim to promote JSON/q across the software development world to have it supported in major browsers, databases, and webservices.