Tony KipkemboiAI Engineer & Content Creator

Analogy: What is a Subgraph Query? #thegraph #blockchain #blockchaintechnology #fyp

24 Jan 2023 · 0 min

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In this short explanatory segment, the presenter defines a "query" as a request for information or data, using a restaurant analogy. He likens walking into a restaurant, ordering a steak, and receiving the cooked steak to the process of issuing a query to a subgraph: the user submits a request, the system processes it, and returns the desired data. This analogy is intended to make the abstract concept of subgraph queries in blockchain technology accessible to beginners.

A query is a request for information or data. Think of this as maybe you walk into a restaurant, you sit down, you get the staff coming to you, you give them your order. Maybe you want to order a steak. They take it back to the kitchen, they cook the steak, and they bring it to you. So that's a query. You basically give them a query. In this case, you told them, I want a steak. They went back there, they made it, they brought it back to you.