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An actual relational database not bound to the SQL nightmare would be something interesting indeed.
by jfb 14y ago
An actual relational database not bound to the SQL nightmare would be something interesting indeed.
- kragen 14y agoI haven't been that impressed with Tutorial D. I spent some time thinking about better ways to query relational and graph data; http://canonical.org/~kragen/binary-relations.html http://canonical.org/~kragen/binary-relations.html are some unfinished notes from that time. Datalog is an existing thing in that space that's pretty sane.
- linuxhansl 14y agoWhat "SQL nightmare" is this? For the record, I mostly work on "NoSQL" databases now (am an HBase committer). But I have no qualms with SQL, and it is certainly not a nightmare.
- jfb 14y agoThe godawful syntax (UPDATE vs INSERT). The godawful semantics -- it's not closed under composition, for instance; too, it is not set based, which means all kinds of hideous contortions with DISTINCT and whatnot. I don't have much time for the K/V stores (save Redis) but I'm also sick like unto death with SQL.