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Discussion on: SQL vs NoSQL - Which is better for you?

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Vincent Milum Jr

Doing tree or graph querying isn't even that hairy in SQL anymore. Its part of the SQL standard at this point and supported by most database engines :) This is something I use quite extensively nowadays.

mariadb.com/kb/en/recursive-common...

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Valts Liepiņš

That's interesting, I had used common table expressions before but had no idea their recursion can be used for hierarchical structure querying.