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Re:Datalog for trees in Clojure by j-pb on Thursday October 22, 2015 @12:26PM (#10433114)
Cascalog isn't really datalog.

It is a datalog like fragment without recursion but with added negation. Which makes it more like a pretty syntax for conjunctive queries with negation and thus equivalent in power to SQL.

The tree example of the article would thus not be possible in cascalog.

Re:Datalog for trees in Clojure by samuell on Thursday October 22, 2015 @12:35PM (#10433166)
IC, many thanks for the clarification!