Andl

Andl is A New Database Language

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Andl is A New Database Language

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What Hacker News says

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kragen·May 31, 2016

I hate SQL, so I was excited to see this, but there are two things that rule this out to me: 1. It's not open-source; the license on https://github.com/davidandl/Andl specifically forbids distribution and commercial use. 2. It only runs in Microsoft Windows. Datalog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalog is much more interesting as an alternative query language — it has better abstraction capabilities than SQL, and it's much less verbose, but as far as I know there's no implementation of Datalog in Postgres.

In Andl, a relational language that is not SQL, is coming to Postgres

pella·May 30, 2016

any news about commercial use ? "LICENCE ======= This version of Andl is free for any kind of experimental use, especially helping to make it better. For now, the licence does not grant rights for distribution or commercial use. That will have to wait until I can choose the right licence, which depends a lot on who might want to use it." https://github.com/davidandl/Andl

In Andl, a relational language that is not SQL, is coming to Postgres