[SQL Death] Gel: Replacing* SQL and Improving on the Relational Database Model

Speaker:

Michael Sullivan

System:

Gel

Video:

YouTube

Gel (formerly EdgeDB) is a new database built around an evolution of the relational model that we call "graph-relational". In the graph-relational model, data is represented as strongly typed objects containing set-valued scalar properties and links to other objects. Missing values are represented in the language as empty sets (no NULL!), and have consistent semantics. The query language, EdgeQL, supports... Read More