JSON is the de facto standard for consuming and producing data from web, mobile and IoT apps, but relational databases are required for reliability – enforcing data integrity and providing durability with transactions. They're not mutually exclusive. MariaDB TX introduced SQL functions for validating, indexing and querying JSON documents – and for returning relational data as JSON documents, or JSON documents as relational data. In this session you will learn how to read, write, index and query semi-structured/non-traditional data with hands-on examples.