Is GraphQL different from a database?

GraphQL is indeed different from databases like SQLite, MongoDB, and Firebase. It is a query language for APIs. While databases store data, GraphQL can help us fetch that data more efficiently. What makes GraphQL different from usual methods of fetching data is the amount of control we have.

Generally, we send a request to the database or the server asking for the required data. Even though the data might be organized in tables (like in SQLite) or some other format (like Firebase, where each data entry is a document), most of the time, we get more than what we may require. So it now comes to us to sift through that data and look for what we need.

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