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I see this as a very positive direction for back-end persistence services. There are similar projects underway for .Net and SQL Server. Also, there are compatible front-end libraries that follow suit. What I find most compelling is to finally be reunited with the RAD (Rapid Application Development) approaches that we had 30 years ago.

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GraphQL is finally an API standard that strikes the right balance between simplicity and flexibility and has the potential to be the only query language most developers have to learn – and could therefore fulfil the idea of ODBC.

In regards to other SQL databases, we're currently working on a GraphQL database proxy that turns your database into a GraphQL API. We're starting with MySQL but have other databases like PostgraphQL, SQL Server, Oracle, DynamoDB on the way.

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