+1 to SQL++ and clean JSON. Cheers, Murtadha
> On Jan 10, 2017, at 9:46 AM, Till Westmann <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > as you know AsterixDB supports 2 query languages (AQL and SQL++) and many > output formats (ADM, clean JSON, lossless JSON, CSV). Our current defaults > for these options (at least on the web interface) are AQL and ADM. > > I’d like to propose to change those defaults to be SQL++ and (clean) JSON. > The reason for wanting them to change, is that I think that these choices > are more attractive to new users of the system and thus can help to increase > the adoption of AsterixDB. A user with some database experience is much more > likely to have previous SQL experience and to feel at home with SQL++ than > having XQuery experience and feeling at home with AQL. Similarly, most users > will want to use the data that they get out of AsterixDB in an application > and it will be a lot easier to consume JSON than it is to consume ADM. > > I've prepared a (tiny) change to change the defaults [1] and I'm wondering > if there are concerns that should keep us from making this change. > > Cheers, > Till > > [1] https://asterix-gerrit.ics.uci.edu/#/c/1409/
