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You mentioned that EdgeDB's query language combines the best of GraphQL and SQL. How it achieves this, and what advantages it offers over traditional query lang

• 1st1 3y ago
  We've spent a lot of time formally defining our data model (a paper will be soon published on that, stay tuned!) and the query language. Designing it we had a few goals in mind: * composability shouldn't be limited for any part of the language. You can shift things around and they'll continue to work. EdgeQL kinda feels like writing Python or JS code. * performance should be great, and that is made possible by two things: we're building on top if Postgres (basically using it as the engine replacing its frontend) and by writing a sophisticated compiler from EdgeQL to optimized SQL. * readability -- we always wanted EdgeQL to be quick to learn and master, and on average it takes just a couple of minutes for someone to write their first query, you can try it yourself in your browser here [1] [1] https://www.edgedb.com/tutorial https://www.edgedb.com/tutorial