Comment by jeltz

The main innovation here seems to be compile time checking of that foreign keys are respected but that is a thing that can be added to SQL and there is at least one proposal for doing so. So I do not really see anything fundamentally different from SQL.

https://keyjoin.org/

Full disclosure: I am one of the co-authors of this paper and an associated patch implenting it in PostgreSQL that we have proposed.

I am happy to see more people than us think this is useful.