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GraphQL: Bridging the Gap Between Databases and Your AppsCategory: Business, Database, Data, Ubuntu
From the early days of System R and Ingres, through the commercial engines of DB2 and Oracle, the open source MySQL and Postgres to the current generations of NoSQLs like MongoDB and Cassandra and scalable SQL like CockroachDB and Yugabyte — through all of this, anyone who ever predicted the demise of databases has been proven wrong.
The data in these databases power the digital products and experiences that you and I touch every day.
As a query language, SQL binds tightly to expressing the user’s desire and is written with direct fidelity to the way databases are structured.
So while all databases are popular and work, they come with query languages that bind to the implementations.
Databases store the world’s data and provide interfaces like SQL and its variants that let users access and manipulate the data.
The data in these databases power the digital products and experiences that you and I touch every day.
As a query language, SQL binds tightly to expressing the user’s desire and is written with direct fidelity to the way databases are structured.
So while all databases are popular and work, they come with query languages that bind to the implementations.
Databases store the world’s data and provide interfaces like SQL and its variants that let users access and manipulate the data.
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