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Is there a site equivalent to "caniuse.com" for all the different database features by product and version? If not, someone should build one. Often some DB would say they added feature X but what does that mean? Did they implement this in advance of other DBs or behind others?


Markus Winand is doing something like that at https://modern-sql.com/. But it's not nearly as extensive as caniuse.com


The issue is there's no database feature spec so you end up with each DB having it's own version of something.


> The issue is there's no database feature spec

ISO/IEC 9075 disagrees.


Yeah, that's the query language used in relational databases but find my the spec for "database encryption" or "database clustering"


The SQL spec is barely comprehensive of the SQL dialects found “in the wild”, let alone the entirely independent and much more interesting set of non-table managing/querying features databases provide.

It provides at best a baseline for comparison.. and a fairly shallow one at that


There is no standard spec so the same function name doing the same kind of thing will work in different ways or support different features.


That's a really wonderful idea.




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