It is an interesting name for the reasons you mentioned, but it's not my project, just one I'm very interested in:
https://steemit.com/steem/@furion/upcoming-hive-db
They have hit a bug when loading data from the blockchain though, so not sure when it will be fixed and ready.
Oh that looks really useful! From what little I have learned about SQL, it also seems like it is a good thing that it is MySQL