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I guess the issue is when you have a front end for multiple services, which is really what GraphQL is for.
by pkulak 7y ago
I guess the issue is when you have a front end for multiple services, which is really what GraphQL is for.
- Lx1oG-AWb6h_ZG0 7y agoOr having multiple frontends, each with different API requirements. Yes, you can still write multiple SQL queries, but the “carefully written SQL views” are not that useful anymore.
- chrisjc 7y agoNot exactly arguing against your point, but there are distributed SQL engines that can run against multiple data-sources... Presto comes to mind. https://prestodb.io/ https://prestodb.io/
- karatestomp 7y agoNot exactly "distributed" but even good ol' postgreSQL has foreign data wrappers. https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Foreign_data_wrappers https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Foreign_data_wrappers