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by chrisjc 2249 days ago
> SQL is designed for rows of flat data.

That is no longer exclusively the case. SQL is used in plenty of places to query nested and semi-structured data. In fact I use it on a daily basis. Eg: avro data in/from Kafka, "json" data from MongoDB.

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Yeah. Analytics data ( which has quite some JSON in it) is usually not queried with GraphQL.