What if SQL could search by meaning? Meet VelesQL

Dev.to AI
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.