Re:Ask HN: Have you ever chosen Postgres over Mongo and regr...
by Maro on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @12:01PM
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SQL is declarative. There's no sense in which functional is higher-order than declarative.
When you write map/reduce, you're doing a mix of functional and probably imperative down the line.
Putting syntactic sugar aside, it's hard to beat SQL in tersity, because you're talking to a big query engine which can do JOIN/WHERE/GROUP BY/HAVING/etc.
When you write map/reduce, you're doing a mix of functional and probably imperative down the line. Putting syntactic sugar aside, it's hard to beat SQL in tersity, because you're talking to a big query engine which can do JOIN/WHERE/GROUP BY/HAVING/etc.