Re:ArangoDB 2.3: Overhauled query optimizer, AQL improvement...
by fceller on Thursday November 20, 2014 @02:13PM
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I agree, we should show more examples.
AQL was indeed inspired by XQuery. We made some user acceptant tests at the very start and used a version which was using keywords from SQL and a more descriptive approach with keywords from programming languages. At least our test users were mostly confused by a similar SQL-syntax but slightly different SQL sematic.
We talked to the JSONiq guys. They had a look as XQuery and AQL and made a similar decision.
AQL was indeed inspired by XQuery. We made some user acceptant tests at the very start and used a version which was using keywords from SQL and a more descriptive approach with keywords from programming languages. At least our test users were mostly confused by a similar SQL-syntax but slightly different SQL sematic.
We talked to the JSONiq guys. They had a look as XQuery and AQL and made a similar decision.