I think, basically, yes. What GraphQL really solves is letting the frontend compose complex, yet specific, queries. SQL lets you do the same thing. But REST API

I think, basically, yes. What GraphQL really solves is letting the frontend compose complex, yet specific, queries. SQL lets you do the same thing. But REST APIs and gRPC-based APIs generally do not. I guess what I would argue against in this post is that SQL is the right language for this. The post starts off with the assertion that we're just using SQL on the backend anyways - not so, in fact my company doesn't have a single SQL database. But I think the overall point remains - if you want powerful clients you can't beat a query language. Apache Calcite comes to mind: https://calcite.apache.org/ https://calcite.apache.org/