ClojureQL - SQL DSL for Clojure

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by pelle • 17 years ago

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amix• 17 years ago

I am a bit disappointed by this abstraction, especially given what power Clojure gives for creating DSLs. This "SQL DSL" seems to resemble a lot on how database handling works in Java.

The people behind ClojureQL should take a look at Python's SQLAlchemy or Ruby's Sequel for inspiration on how to create kick ass SQL abstractions.

kolosy• 17 years ago

it does seem a lot more verbose than it should be.

jrockway• 17 years ago

It's not really much of an abstraction. You are still programming SQL, but you spell some things differently.

An abstraction is where you treat the relational data source like something closer to your application; perhaps as a queryable object store. (This is the abstraction that ORMs provide.)

Tamerlin• 17 years ago

They should look at Linq.

yu• 17 years ago

LINQ is nice and if it helps db4o which is GPL has Java and .NET languages support.

lbj• 17 years ago

Generally the comments in this post (currently 5) all demonstrate a misunderstanding of the core principles.

ClojureQL provides DB Agnosticism and language-level statement construction. On top of ClojureQL you could build any number of high-level abstractions, but ClojureQL is not an attempt at doing that.

ClojureQL - SQL DSL for Clojure

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