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Are there any (more suitable) alternatives to SQL?
by Devilboy 16y ago
Are there any (more suitable) alternatives to SQL?
- silentbicycle 16y agoThe K/Q people (http://kx.com/ http://kx.com/) have one interesting interpretation. It's quite expensive for production use* and uses an APL dialect as a query language, which tends to scare away a lot of developers. I'm utterly fascinated with it, albeit from a distance. (J is cool, too, but doesn't come bundled with a high-end in-memory database.) * I've heard it can run $60k/CPU. It's designed for realtime stock data mining (https://cs1.cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/shasha/papers/hpts.pdf https://cs1.cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/shasha/papers/hpts.pdf), so they get away with it.
- mistermann 16y agoCan you give us some syntax examples?
- Devilboy 16y agoIf it's anything like APL you probably don't want to see it...
- silentbicycle 16y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1511121 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1511121 I meant to reply to this, didn't notice until after the edit window closed...
- silentbicycle 16y agohttp://nsl.com/k/s/s.k http://nsl.com/k/s/s.k (from http://nsl.com/papers/spreadsheet.htm http://nsl.com/papers/spreadsheet.htm) http://nsl.com/papers/kisntlisp.htm http://nsl.com/papers/kisntlisp.htm This C code helped me get into the headspace. (http://nsl.com/papers/origins.htm http://nsl.com/papers/origins.htm) See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=266982 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=266982
- timclark 16y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(data_language_specification) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(data_language_specification) Chris Date is worth reading for his ideas on what a good language for relational algebra should be like and why SQL isn't that language.