this is a ridiculous position. nothing substantive in the thread aside from "it's semi-possible to hack up a horrible subset of sql into some sort of api query

this is a ridiculous position. nothing substantive in the thread aside from "it's semi-possible to hack up a horrible subset of sql into some sort of api query language" -- with absolutely no reason why you'd want to do this ... (aside from maybe "familiarity" as an implicit reason) if you want to directly expose your database -- you can use an abstraction that publishes a graphql api from your database schema. this is also suboptimal for a lot of reasons but it's very much a viable way to achieve the "same thing" as exposing a client side "sql as query language" interface would ...