first commit 2009, so we're roughly 12 years later. Whats the saying? It takes about 10 years to create a reliable DB? Good on you guys. Looks super interesting.
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#172first commit 2009, so we're roughly 12 years later. Whats the saying? It takes about 10 years to create a reliable DB? Good on you guys. Looks super interesting.
It's a long story :-)
https://www.edgedb.com/blog/building-a-production-database-i...
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not too familiar with the CoreData API, but from a quick googling it seems like this is some sort of an ORM on top of SQLite. We position EdgeDB as a database server, not a library, partly because you can interact with it from different programming languages. But we design our client library with focus on API composability, check out our edgedb-js library for example: https://www.edgedb.com/docs/clients/01_js/ind…
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…
That's correct! Though that's true for most ORMs as well, and we try not to get lumped into the ORM bucket...too much bad blood.
I've dabbled with CoreData myself and it's a phenomenal API. Apple comes up with a lot of great stuff. In fact, given how much server-side Swift there is these days, we'll have to look into building a Swift client library at some point.
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#174Congrats on the launch!
The code seems to be Apache 2.0 which opens the door to AWS or other big clouds just hosting the service instead of people using your cloud service. Are you guys planning to change the license to prevent that?
On a tangent note, I find it is honestly annoying to have to maintain a separate account/authorization/vpc connection just because I want to use a database. I would much rather startups work with cloud providers to offer it natively or we invent a better way to interoperate with clouds. The explosion of small "cloud" that offer one service each isn't pleasant to work it especially when they don't have a terraform provider.
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#175What's the sort of timeline on GIS extensions? Great work btw, I've been following since the alphas and I'm excited to try it out :)
We need to figure out the formal API and packaging format for extensions. We're working on it.
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#176I 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…
EdgeDB employee here. I couldn't have asked for a better question to demonstrate the power of subqueries! Here's how I'd do this in EdgeQL: with tag_names := {"angular", "nestjs", "cypress", "nx"}, select BlogPost { title, tag_names := .tags.name, match_count := count((select .tags filter .name in tag_names)) } order by .match_count desc; Which would give you a result like this: [ { title: 'All the frameworks!', tag_…
So as I read TheSpiciestDev's comment, he's complaining that making his query in PostgreSQL is slow. It looks like EdgeDB is a frontend to PostgreSQL; how will it help with TheSpiciestDev's problem?
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#177I'm so happy for you guys, I'm wishing you great success.
Since the first first version of uvloop I've been excited about MagicStack and I couldn't be more excited about EdgeDB since it has the same magical minds behind.
Here's what I think makes EdgeDB special: it's a DB that replaces the tediousness of ORMs with a better core that can be cross-language / cross-platform. I've implemented tons of APIs, first REST, then GraphQL all of them on top of ORMs (Django, Peewee, SQLAlchemy, Mongoose and more). When prototyping was great, but scaling them became quite challenging, specially if you want to have a performant outcome when retrieving data.
EdgeQL is an incredible useful abstraction that will prove itself in a few years. Long life EdgeQL. Keep up the good work!
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
EdgeDB employee here. I couldn't have asked for a better question to demonstrate the power of subqueries! Here's how I'd do this in EdgeQL: with tag_names := {"angular", "nestjs", "cypress", "nx"}, select BlogPost { title, tag_names := .tags.name, match_count := count((select .tags filter .name in tag_names)) } order by .match_count desc; Which would give you a result like this: [ { title: 'All the frameworks!', tag_…
So as I read TheSpiciestDev's comment, he's complaining that making his query in PostgreSQL is slow. It looks like EdgeDB is a frontend to PostgreSQL; how will it help with TheSpiciestDev's problem?
The problem sounds like something that could be solved with a GIST index. EdgeDB doesn't yet have a way to specify the index type, though, mostly because we aren't sure what would be the best way to do it without things becoming too Postgres-specific in schemas.
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#179Congrats on the launch! The code seems to be Apache 2.0 which opens the door to AWS or other big clouds just hosting the service instead of people using your cloud service. Are you guys planning to change the license to prevent that? On a tangent note, I find it is honestly annoying to have to maintain a separate account/authorization/vpc connection just because I want to use a database. I would much rather startups…
Re license we have an answer for you here: https://github.com/edgedb/edgedb/discussions/3377
Re second point you can deploy edgedb to your cloud of choice. As for working with cloud providers to make integration better for the user, it's a bit too early for us to comment.
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#180I'm so happy for you guys, I'm wishing you great success. Since the first first version of uvloop I've been excited about MagicStack and I couldn't be more excited about EdgeDB since it has the same magical minds behind. Here's what I think makes EdgeDB special: it's a DB that replaces the tediousness of ORMs with a better core that can be cross-language / cross-platform. I've implemented tons of APIs, first REST, th…
Aww, thanks!