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Discussion on: What is GraphQL and why I should use it?

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RJ-1998

I don't know why everybody thinks that Graphql can only be used in case of web development API. There can be more useful things you can do with Graphql. One of the things that I see is that it's a "query language" like SQL. You can query a big amount of data just like SQL does on a large database. Consider this, suppose you have a json data of about 13M lines,what would you do with that? Well, use Graphql and seperate the necessary data out, and apply Machine learning to that data!

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Prashanth Krishnamurthy

Agreed. We will see more such applications as the tooling support becomes more prevalent.