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An introduction to TypeDB for language architects

Learn about two foundational advances in databases technology pioneered by TypeDB, the joy of designing principled programming languages, and what the future will hold for TypeDB, its query language TypeQL, and its ecosystem.

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The theory of TypeQL: pioneering typeful query languages

Despite breaking with the traditions of long-established database query languages, TypeQL often feels deeply familiar even to first-time users of the language—this is because TypeQL is directly built on the principles of modern programming language theory, which distill how we intuitively interact with computers using simple, yet formal, structures: types.

Dr. Christoph Dorn

What it means to be more strongly-typed than SQL and NoSQL

Unlike existing database paradigms, TypeDB is designed based on modern ideas from type theory. If you want to learn how this works in detail, you may be interested in our article on type-theoretic databases in our learning section. In this post, we will discuss a crucial difference between TypeDB and other database paradigms, which is a direct result of these type-theoretic foundations of TypeDB. But don’t worry, we won’t assume any familiarity with type theory and will keep our discussion as high level as possible!

Dr. Christoph Dorn

The need for subtyping and polymorphism in databases

In this article, we’ll explain how a new revolution in databases overcomes the limitations of relational, document and graph databases by using subtyping and polymorphism — core object-oriented (OO) programming principles — to create higher abstractions and achieve greater expressivity.

Shane Johnson

The age of AI is upon us — where are the smart databases?

What if you could ask sophisticated questions without having to tell the database how to answer them? In the same way AI-powered code generation tools can improve developer productivity, so can an AI-powered database.

Shane Johnson

Inheritance and polymorphism: where the cracks in SQL begin to show

Polymorphism can be one of the most challenging things to model in a database. Not only do you want your database to be performant, you also want it to feel intuitive so that queries you write make sense and are simple to maintain, and polymorphic data can easily mess up that balance if you don’t take the time to consider how best to implement it.

Dr. James Whiteside

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