New Query Language for Graph Databases to Become International Standard

Re:New Query Language for Graph Databases to Become Internat... by giardini on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @11:27AM (#21006401)

Here's the classic and humorous letter critical of relational databases (RDBMS) penned in 1991 by Henry Baker and published in the Communications of the ACM:

http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/letters/CACM-RelationalDat...

Almost an "RDBMS Considered Harmful" screed, Baker's letter may seem humorous in today's environment and even ludicrous to those who did not live through the transition from older file-systems/DBMS to RDBMS. To those of us who did experience that transition, Baker was painfully on-point and his letter served as a scourge to improve systems performance for more than a decade beyond that period.

More recently the major RDBMS vendors have complemented SQL with directives that address the storage and handling of hierarchical data, e.g., in POSTGRESQL:

https://www.technobytz.com/closure_table_store_hierarchical_...

Baker was no prophet: his letter showed high hopes for object-oriented databases, another technology that noisily rose and quietly fell in popularity.

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Re:New Query Language for Graph Databases to Become Internat... by taffer on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @03:24PM (#21009009)

> More recently the major RDBMS vendors have complemented SQL with directives that address the storage and handling of hierarchical data

Oracle could do that 30 years ago, and recursive CTEs are part of SQL:1999.

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