Re: Proper relational database?

Just as a curiosity, what do you think of ANDL?

http://www.andl.org/welcome-to-andl/

The developer has been posting some questions here about interfacing it to
PostgreSQL. But he doesn't just want to do a "translate the ANDL language
to SQL language"

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Guyren Howe <guyren(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Anyone familiar with the issue would have to say that the tech world would
> be a significantly better place if IBM had developed a real relational
> database with an elegant query language rather than the awful camel of a
> thing that is SQL.
>
> If I had a few $million to spend in a philanthropical manner, I would hire
> some of the best PG devs to develop a proper relational database server.
> Probably a query language that expressed the relational algebra in a
> scheme-like syntax, and the storage model would be properly relational (eg
> no duplicate rows).
>
> It's an enormous tragedy that all the development effort that has gone
> into NoSQL database has pretty much all gotten it wrong: by all means throw
> out SQL, but not the relational model with it. They're all just rehashing
> the debate over hierarchical storage from the 70s. Comp Sci courses should
> feature a history class.
>
> It's a bit odd to me that someone isn't working on such a thing.
>
> Just curious what folks here have to say…
>
> --
> Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org)
> To make changes to your subscription:
> http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
>

--
"He must have a Teflon brain -- nothing sticks to it"
Phyllis Diller

Maranatha! <><
John McKown