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What is the advantange to a relational sql/ddl schema?

• seagreen 9y ago
  Plate isn't really in the same space as SQL. SQL is such a shockingly good engineering choice that if you can use it I would. So even if Plate was done I would use Postgres instead of a Plate-based datastore inside my apps. Plate serves a different purpose: schema'ing human-readable formats like iCalendar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar)[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar)[1] or JSON APIs. So even if you're using SQL within your app Plate may come in useful at the boundaries. [1] Even if iCalendar was in JSON you couldn't write a Plate schema for it for the reasons listed here (https://github.com/seagreen/plate/blob/master/docs/priorities.md#-ability-to-describe-existing-data-types-with-plate https://github.com/seagreen/plate/blob/master/docs/prioritie...), but it serves as an example of a common human-readable data format.