What if SQL could search by meaning? Meet VelesQL
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Generative AI
You know SQL. You have been writing SELECT, WHERE, and JOIN for years. But the moment you need to search by meaning, traverse a knowledge graph, or rank results by relevance, SQL cannot help you. You reach for a 2. Graph traversal → "Walk relationships between entities" 3. Full-text search → "Rank documents containing these keywords" Today, most developers use three separate systems for this. A vector database for embeddings, a graph database for relationships, and Elasticsearch or similar for text.