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I think SQL is better than datalog. I suspect this is one of those opinions that may be somewhat outside consensus on a forum like HN, but is strongly within the consensus more broadly.


I like both, they excel at different things.

SQL is pretty horrifying when you start getting tree structures or recursive structures. While Datalog handles those like a champ.

SQL is really nice for columnar data, and it's well supported almost everywhere.

Though Datalog isn't half bad at columnar data either.


Yeah. I think you and I have the same opinions about this :)

I like SQL more when working with tabular data (especially for analytical use cases), but that has (thus far) dominated the kinds of work I've done.




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