Is there a declarative language for data definitions?

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Published on 2010-03-22T18:27:14Z Indexed on 2010/03/22 18:31 UTC
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Reading about WPF and thinking about my application's data store at the same time led me to wonder if there are any languages or tools that allow you to define relational data in a declarative way?

A shallow Google search suggests no such thing exists. Yet it seems so obviously useful. The kind of tool I have in mind would declaratively describe (at least) entities, relationships and views is a platform-agnostic way that would act as an abstraction layer between data-driven applications and their datastores.

Does any such tool exist?

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