Meta’s web API system, GraphQL, is a different kind of API. With GraphQL, developers use a strongly typed query language to define both requests and responses, allowing an application to specify ...

SQL has dominated data querying for decades. Newer query languages offer more elegance, simplicity, and flexibility for modern use cases. For the last three decades, databases and Structured Query ...

The Stargate GraphQL API now enables developers to create tables and define schemas in Apache Cassandra without the need to work directly with Cassandra Query Language (CQL).

GraphQL has disadvantages like extra overhead and processing to parse queries. As Gartner analyst Gary Olliffe writes: “GraphQL has emerged as an alternative to REST APIs .

Hasura, the data access infrastructure company, is adding GraphQL support for MySQL and early access support for SQL Server to its existing support for PostgreSQL, enabling the company to support ...