Andl is a "proper relational database" language.
Andl is an original implementation of the language D described in The Third Manifesto.
http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~hugh/TTM/.
I have a working implementation of Andl on Postgres. See http://www.andl.org/2016/04/postgres-meet-andl/. This version
isnot ready for release, but there is a download that supports Sqlite, Thrift and REST.
The syntax of Andl is quite different from Tutorial D, or SQL. It does what SQL does, including any relational query
youcan think of, and a few you haven't! Check out the web site for some code samples.
Regards
David M Bennett FACS
Andl - A New Database Language - andl.org
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> owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Paul Jungwirth
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> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Proper relational database?
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> On 04/21/2016 01:36 PM, Guyren Howe wrote:
> > Anyone familiar with the issue would have to say that the tech world
> > would be a significantly better place if IBM had developed a real >
> relational database with an elegant query language
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> I'm surprised no one yet has mentioned Tutorial D by C. J. Date. His book
> _Database in Depth_ is pretty much an extended argument for how superior it
> is to SQL. RelDB is apparently an open source implementation of it, and D4 is
> a commercial one. That's about all I know in terms of practically using it
> for something. But Date & Tutorial D seems like a good place to start if SQL
> isn't relational enough for you. The book I mentioned is short and easy to
> read.
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> Paul
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