Technical Perspective: Rel
Abstract
For more than half a century, relational data management has lived in a ''two-language world'': a powerful declarative sublanguage for data (SQL) glued to a host programming language for everything else. This split into two worlds creates friction: First, there is an ''impedance mismatch'' between the set oriented query language SQL and the usually more imperative host programming language. And second, while programming languages aim for producing reusable components, SQL queries are often ad-hoc, and there is little if any reuse of logic and functionality across queries.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Advanced Database Systems and Queries
Environmental Monitoring and Data Management
Semantic Web and Ontologies
Publication details
- Journal / source
- ACM SIGMOD Record
- Publisher
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Volume
- 55
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 96–96
- Publication date
- 23 April 2026
- Language
- EN