Comparing SQL to TypeQL

Using SQL to query relational databases is easy. As a declarative language, it’s straightforward to write queries and build powerful applications. However, relational databases struggle when working with complex data. When querying such data in SQL, challenges especially arise in the modelling and querying of the data.

For example, due to the large number of necessary JOINs, it forces us to write long and verbose queries. Such queries are difficult to write and prone to mistakes.

TypeQL is the query language used in TypeDB. Just as SQL is the standard query language in relational databases, TypeQL is TypeDB's query language. It’s a declarative language, and allows us to model, query and reason over our data.

In this talk, we will look at how TypeQL compares to SQL. Why and when should you use TypeQL over SQL? How do we do outer/inner joins in TypeQL? We'll look at the common concepts, but mostly talk about the differences between the two.

Speaker: Tomás Sabat

Tomás is the Chief Operating Officer at Vaticle. He works closely with TypeDB's open source and enterprise users who use TypeDB to build applications in a wide number of industries including financial services, life sciences, cyber security and supply chain management. A graduate of the University of Cambridge, Tomás has spent the last seven years founding and building businesses in the technology industry.

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