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Re: Show HN: EdgeDB 1.0

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Post by solarmist »

danappelxx wrote: post #127
solarmist wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right, but conceptually the way you interact with it is the same. I'm not trying to belittle what you've done. I'm in fact very excited about it. And EdgeDB is very needed because it's just an Apple library currently. Conceptually, my impression is that EdgeDb is relational tables (highly-typed) queried, combined, and modeled as nodes in a graph/tree. Is that conceptually correct? I don't, but I would like to if I co…

Swift has a family of Docker containers and an (admittedly modest) ecosystem of backend frameworks. You can definitely run it on Azure :)

I know you can, but I'm talking about it being a 1st class citizen.

Re: Show HN: EdgeDB 1.0

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Post by torartc »

thatwasunusual wrote: post #69

> We should not continue wasting our productivity with a database API architecture from the last century. Sorry, but dissing proven technology like this just makes me vomit. Show me _how_ you can beat SQL in performance and features on the frontpage, or I'm just happy to go along with what I already have.

Makes you want to vomit? That's a bit over the top.

Re: Show HN: EdgeDB 1.0

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Post by rmbyrro »

TheSpiciestDev wrote: post #125

I feel like a graph database is a solution to an issue I've faced (and, continue to face) and it may just be because that I haven't spun one up and tried or that the documentation/examples don't stick out. But could someone confirm my feeling? If my feeling is correct, I'd enjoy verifying it with EdgeDB or the like. My example/requirement: I have a user wanting to find best-matching blog posts. Every post is tagged w…

I'm currently investigating whether Redis Bloom [1] could be a good tool for similar requirement.

[1] https://github.com/RedisBloom/RedisBloom

Re: Show HN: EdgeDB 1.0

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Post by FractalHQ »

TheSpiciestDev wrote: post #125

I feel like a graph database is a solution to an issue I've faced (and, continue to face) and it may just be because that I haven't spun one up and tried or that the documentation/examples don't stick out. But could someone confirm my feeling? If my feeling is correct, I'd enjoy verifying it with EdgeDB or the like. My example/requirement: I have a user wanting to find best-matching blog posts. Every post is tagged w…

I do these often with standard GraphQL queries, often over Postgres. Now I’m curious about the performance difference compared to an SQL ORDERBY or similar EdgeDB implementation!

Re: Show HN: EdgeDB 1.0

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Post by slx26 »

dawei67 wrote: post #116

This looks like a better prisma. Too bad its using postgresql. It will not scale. Do you plan to develop your own backend or support others one ?

I don't have any strong opinion about it, but I have the same question: is it possible that in the long term the backend will be replaced by a custom one? And if not, what is the postgres backend bringing to the table that's difficult to replace? Sure there will be some friction between edge's model and the way it has to be internally expressed in postgres?

Edit: oh, a relevant reply https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30293064

Re: Show HN: EdgeDB 1.0

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Post by RedCrowbar »

nicoburns wrote: post #95
RedCrowbar wrote: post #64

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Because that only gives you actor names, not records, and also because arrays aren't a universal SQL feature.

You can JSON_AGG to get whole records.

Unfortunately, JSON aggregation destroys type information, so you can't reason about that your SQL query actually returns anymore.

Re: Show HN: EdgeDB 1.0

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Post by d_watt »

klohto wrote: post #130
TheSpiciestDev wrote: post #125

I feel like a graph database is a solution to an issue I've faced (and, continue to face) and it may just be because that I haven't spun one up and tried or that the documentation/examples don't stick out. But could someone confirm my feeling? If my feeling is correct, I'd enjoy verifying it with EdgeDB or the like. My example/requirement: I have a user wanting to find best-matching blog posts. Every post is tagged w…

Is it though? Simple IN with an ORDER BY on the same match will return the correct ranking. More info on ranking here https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/textsearch-controls....

Am I right in reading this as the parent comment envisioning a “post” table and a “tag” table, and you’re suggest the “post” table just have a “tag” column?

Re: Show HN: EdgeDB 1.0

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Post by skybrian »

It's a good sales pitch, but it's not immediately clear what the terms are. I see that there is a company behind this, that there's also a Github repo, and it appears you can install something without paying. But is it entirely open source? If not, what are they selling? What kind of business is this?
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