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Was it, or was it the year of graphql? The latter making the former more approachable.
by uberman 8y ago
Was it, or was it the year of graphql? The latter making the former more approachable.
- meritt 8y agoGraphQL has nothing inherently to do with graph databases. It's a client-side declarative syntax where you specify what result you want, usually including composite relational objects. The server-side database would be any supported datastore.
- uberman 8y agoI don't disagree at all, but query languages like "SPARQL" and "Cypher" are no where nearly as approachable as the query by example like syntax of "GraphQL" (resolvers aside). My feeling is that GraphQL has opened up a pathway and other than that I personally did not observe any other kind of sea change in the graph database landscape.
- zaphirplane 8y agoHow do you implement and/or in graphql A quick search shows you have to implement the whole thing yourself
- rambojazz 8y agoSparql is not unapproachable at all, after one has learned the basics. It's not more difficult than traditional sql queries.