Comments by "Christian Baune" (@programaths) on "The Stockholm Syndrome of SQL | Prime Reacts" video.

  1. I worked with Caché mumps/objectscript. SQL is a totally optional layer for that ecosystem. Want to store something in the database ? "S ^a=3", that's it ! Do you need something a bit more structured ? "^persons(1,"age")=42". You've also XML databases with which you can use XQuery. You've Neo4J, where you can use Cypher and almost draw an ASCII representation of what you are looking for. Yet, he would complain because each of those has limitations. Either it's convenient (Mumps requires you to maintain the indexes, XQuery too). If SQL is popular, it's because it's a standard that allows systems to be interoperable up to a point. So, a developer can easily use many of them, and software using those is easier to develop. Learn once, use everywhere*. * With some tweaks here and there
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