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Re:Ebay launches query language by kilovoltaire on Sunday December 04, 2011 @09:50PM (#3312729)
I've been thinking lately that certain APIs would benefit from two distinct 'entry points':

1. a nice, object-oriented hierarchical RESTful interface for standard queries and getting started e.g. /api/user/12345/friends/

2. a sql-esque query language interface for arbitrary, complicated requests e.g. /api/?q=select id from users where name="Joe"

It looks like ql.io could be a good way to provide the latter.

Re:Ebay launches query language by s3u on Sunday December 04, 2011 @11:47PM (#3313133)
Right. One of ql.io's goals is to enable (b) but on a tier between clients and servers.