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by SwellJoe 3082 days ago
This isn't an ORM, is it? I poked at it in an earlier (PostGraphQL) version and it feels like a query translator from GraphQL to SQL and back, to me, with no munging onto or into objects, at all. ORMs are for people who love their programming language but don't want to touch the database.

This is kinda the opposite of an ORM. Nearly everything is in the database and this is a wrapper that allows you to build your app in your database.
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piaste 3082 days ago
You're thinking of code-first ORMs (to use the EF terminology), where you write classes and the tool maps them to tables and queries.

These GraphQL tools, however, act a lot like a database-first ORM, where you provide a database and the tool generates code in a different paradigm (OO for ORMs, Graph QL here). It is indeed the opposite direction, but ORMs can work that way too.

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SwellJoe 3082 days ago
Yeah, I guess GraphQL is delivering JSON "objects". Nonetheless, developing for it is a completely different experience from any other ORM I've ever poked at (not saying it's better, just very different).
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