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To Draw Is Human: Toward No-Code Subgraph Search

Communications of the ACM

Due to the worldwide shortage of developers, growing talent gap, and budgetary challenges faced by small- and medium-sized businesses in hiring software teams, low-code or no-code frameworks are the latest disruption in the business world.1 For example, SAP recently launched SAP AppGyver, which is a "no-code application development platform that enables developers of all skill levels to create enterprise-ready applications with drag-and-drop simplicity."5 The demand for such low-code or no-code frameworks is not limited to software applications development but also for easy access and search of data residing in databases. Specifically, lay users should be able to access them without needing to write a single line of code. However, query languages (QL)--the primary means to access data residing in databases--enforce end users to be proficient in these languages before they can take advantage of databases for their tasks.