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Datalog is tempting but can be slow. For recursion it can be elegant, but a graph query language like Cypher is much easier to work with. Less verbose than SQ
by 29athrowaway 2y ago
Datalog is tempting but can be slow.
For recursion it can be elegant, but a graph query language like Cypher is much easier to work with.
Less verbose than SQL but also much less readable.
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- plaguuuuuu 2y agoit is totally declarative and almost like an SMT solver so has some properties that can make it more useful in certain situations - I think it might even be fully statically verifiable but not sure. would need to look it up. I think Rust was initially using it for reference counting.
- 29athrowaway 2y agoNo doubt that it is powerful and useful. But it is no SQL killer or Cypher killer.
- nikodotio 2y agoNo, it’s a secret third thing