[joshribakoff]

1 - I don't have to fork my database to use graphQL... it was designed to be an API gateway.

2 - forking databases to speak the same language still doesn't solve the issue of how to coalesce data from multiple backends into one response. You need an API gateway for that.

3 - forking a db would take months or years for me. I added graphQL to my stack in a few hours without modifying my backends, again because it's designed as an API gateway.

Yes they both declare data requirements. But no they aren't both relational and only one of these two technologies was designed as an API gateway.