The traditional approach of providing data access to applications via remote database servers is not ideal for microservices. And while SQL provides standard access to relational databases, GraphQL can be used with any type of database—and it returns JSON documents.
The modern approach is to build and deploy microservices as domain-specific GraphSQL servers powered by their own embedded databases, with all schema and data changes sent to a remote database server via replication or messaging.
DBTA held a webinar with Shane K Johnson, head of marketing, FairCom, who discussed database architectures for microservices, including GraphQL.
