Graph QL: The Future Five Years Later
February 28, 2020
Graph QL is “is a query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data.” The technology allegedly was a result of Facebook’s technical wizardry in 2012. The digital information weapon vendor released Graph QL to open source in 2015. You can get insights, links, and techno babble on the Graph QL Foundation Web site.
DarkCyber noted that Hasura snagged about $10 million to make Graph QL easier to use. The story appeared in TechCrunch on February 26, 2020. Is Hasura a frillback pigeon?
Or is the company one of those lovable creatures found in Washington Square Park in the spring?
As it turns out, Graph QL is becoming a mini boomlet in the database universe. There are the companies supporting the Graph QL Facebook innovation; for example:
Plus others like IBM and the PR world’s fave Twitter.
However, there are other companies in the “graph” business; for example:
Also, another dozen or so innovators.
Altexsoft asserts that GraphQL is that the technology is good for complex systems. Other upsides include:
- Retrieves data with a single call
- Delivers just what’s needed
- Permits validation and type checks
- Auto generates API documentation
- Supports rapid application prototyping (the move fast and break things approach perhaps?)
There are some downsides; for example:
- Complexity
- Performance
- The ever helpful a HTTP status code of 200 (helpful indeed)
- Complexity (Oh, sorry, I mentioned that).
Now back to the TechCrunch story about Hasura. The reason the company was funded may relate to the firm’s unique selling proposition: Our approach makes GraphQL easy.
Will easy sell? Worth watching in order to determine what breed of pigeon is flying through disparate sets of big data.
Stephen E Arnold, February 28, 2020
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