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by halayli 818 days ago
Relational algebra IR is implemented in MonetDB and discussed in their paper. Definitely worth reading.

Not trying to be picky but pure relational algebra doesn't map to SQL and IMO it's not a good idea to attempt to do that due to the fact that relational algebra treats tuples as mathematical sets (ordering/uniqueness matters) while SQL does not(and has to deal with nullability).