Re: Proper relational database?

So, let's just flat-out ask.

Dear Important People: would the PostgreSQL project consider
supporting other query languages? Or creating a plug-in mechanism for
them, so that alternative interface languages could be added without
changing the base code?

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 4:36 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…
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