On: MQL – Client and server to query your db in natura...

[dragon96]

Genuine question: does anyone here actually want to query their database with natural language?

[kadomony → dragon96]

It's really helpful with MongoDB Query Language (also MQL). Document models without a rigid schema and a less intuitive API are where this stuff comes in real handy. MongoDB's GUI Compass already shipped a feature to generate queries and aggregation pipelines from natural language.

[dragonwriter → dragon96]

The people that hire data analysts do.

[pylua → dragonwriter]

Is this to be trusted with things that have to be accurate such as a subpoena ?

Besides, I feel like a data analyst should be able to know what questions to ask, not just how to translate business requests to sql.

[wccrawford → pylua]

If you have to be accurate, "natural language" is not going to be the way to do it.