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  <h2>What is Gel?</h2>
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    Gel is a new kind of database
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    that takes the best parts of
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    relational databases, graph
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    databases, and ORMs. We call it
    <br/>a <b>graph-relational database</b>.
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  <h3>🧩 Types, not tables 🧩</h3>
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Schema is the foundation of your application. It should be something you can
read, write, and understand.

Forget foreign keys; tabular data modeling is a relic of an older age, and it
[isn't compatible](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%E2%80%93relational_impedance_mismatch)
with modern languages. Instead, Gel thinks about schema the same way you do:
as **object types** containing **properties** connected by **links**.

```esdl
type Person {
  required name: str;
}

type Movie {
  required title: str;
  multi actors: Person;
}
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This example is intentionally simple, but Gel supports everything you'd
expect from your database: a strict type system, indexes, constraints, computed
properties, stored procedures...the list goes on. Plus it gives you some shiny
new features too: link properties, schema mixins, and best-in-class JSON
support. Read the [schema docs](https://docs.geldata.com/reference/datamodel)
for details.

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  <h3>🌳 Objects, not rows 🌳</h3>
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Gel's super-powered query language EdgeQL is designed as a ground-up
redesign of SQL. EdgeQL queries produce rich, structured objects, not flat
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