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The downside: #EdgeQL is currently (seemingly) only implemented by #EdgeDB.
EdgeDB *is* a relational database at heart (they don't get tired of mentioning #Postgres) and EdgeQL queries *do* compile to SQL (from what I can tell, this is not very openly mentioned).
But using it with an existing relational database seems to be entirely unsupported. This makes me sad. Shouldn't it be totally possible?

So what if there was a query language for constructing objects from database queries (we don't need any new-fangled database type, relational databases are just fine, really!)?
Well, that's what #EdgeQL is! It looks quite elegant and comes with clients that, if the language supports it, perfectly type the result!
This effectively lets you skip the #ORMand I think that's cool.

The cool thing about #EdgeQL (by #EdgeDB) over #GraphQL is that you can actually use it for ... querying.