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		chrisjc on April 16, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SQL is a better API language than GraphQL – Convin... > SQL is designed for rows of flat data. That is no longer exclusively the case. SQL is used in plenty of places to query nested and semi-structured data. In fact I use it on a daily basis. Eg: avro data in/from Kafka, "json" data from MongoDB.

je42 on April 17, 2020 [–]

Yeah. Analytics data ( which has quite some JSON in it) is usually not queried with GraphQL.

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