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 <guy...@gmail.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@postgresql.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
