Other folks have asked about using SQL and NoSQL together, and subsequently whether there's a clean way of defining the access objects in a clean, generic way.
My question is somewhat related -- which parts of java.sql and javax.sql can be re-used, and is there any plan for Oracle* to get into the NoSQL space and hopefully provide an API? I know that the various NoSQL options differ quite a lot, hence having a "JDBC" doesn't seem to make sense.
PS I like what David Pollack is doing for Lift with Record and DBRecord.
***** That's Oracle-who-now-owns-Java, not Oracle-the-database.