AvocadoDB Query Language - Jan Steemann

© 2012 triAGENS GmbH | 2012-04-04 5 Language problems  The current query language has the problem that some queries cannot be expressed very well with it  This might be due to the query language being based on SQL, and SQL being a query language for relational databases  AvocadoDB is mainly a document-oriented database and its object model does only partly overlap with the SQL object model:  SQL (relational):  tables  (homogenous) rows  columns  scalars  references  AvocadoDB (document-oriented):  collections  (inhomogenous) documents  attributes  scalars  lists  edges