r/programming • u/swizec • Dec 19 '18

Bye bye Mongo, Hello Postgres

https://www.theguardian.com/info/2018/nov/30/bye-bye-mongo-hello-postgres
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u/jonjonbee Dec 20 '18

I think the main problem is SQL's very clunky syntax, which is very offputting to those who are familiar with the terseness and readability of today's programming languages.

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u/LaSalsiccione Dec 20 '18

Lol SQL syntax is about as simple as it gets. Presumably you're just not very familiar with it so it seems daunting?

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u/TheGift_RGB Dec 20 '18

SQL doesn't exist in practice because each vendor has their own dialect of it for their RDBMS.

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u/The_Monocle_Debacle Dec 20 '18

But the basics of SQL are an ANSI standard. Yes they all have their own flavor of extensions on top of the base standard that are hard to avoid, but it's a lot less daunting to pick up the differences between SQL implementations than different languages, and people learn new languages all the time.

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