Indeed Prolog programs are also called databases sometimes. Some things Prolog can do over SQL:
- infinite data defined by recursive predicates
- flexible data structures (think JSON but better, called complex terms) and a way to query them (called unification algorithm)
- execution strategy fine-tuned for reasoning (called resolution algorithm). You can do this with SQL but you’d have to formalize things using set operations and it’d be very very slow.
On the other hand, SQL can query plain data very very fast.
- infinite data defined by recursive predicates
- flexible data structures (think JSON but better, called complex terms) and a way to query them (called unification algorithm)
- execution strategy fine-tuned for reasoning (called resolution algorithm). You can do this with SQL but you’d have to formalize things using set operations and it’d be very very slow.
On the other hand, SQL can query plain data very very fast.