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GraphQL has nothing to do with graph databases.
by SuperFerret 7y ago
GraphQL has nothing to do with graph databases.
- pcr910303 7y agoWhy? GraphQL is about modeling business domain objects in graphs [0] and querying them. Isn't that basically what Graph DB languages do too? [0] https://graphql.org/learn/thinking-in-graphs/ https://graphql.org/learn/thinking-in-graphs/
- frant-hartm 7y agoIt is a query language for APIs, name like RestQL or JsonQL would be much more suitable. The expressiveness of GraphQL is severely limited, it doesn't allow you to express even simple patterns like triangles, depth n, paths etc..
- AzzieElbab 7y agoaside from google search results for GQL :)
- mattkrick 7y agohttps://dgraph.io/ https://dgraph.io/
- staticassertion 7y agoI think linking to dgraph may actually support "has nothing to do with". DGraph's query language was inspired by graphql but it also explicitly diverged from it in order to make a more suitable db language.
- dreamcompiler 7y agoExactly. GraphQL solves the same problem as REST. It is not a graph query language despite its unfortunate name.