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Been using EdgeDB for ~6 months and it's great. I do wish the documentation was better (more examples please!). I spent more time than should be necessary trying to figure out simple things like NOT NULL, or how to get a backref for a linked table.
very nice. you may want to check out openziti (open source) to eliminate vpn (while closing EdgeDB server and Postgres server link listeners and open IB FW ports). can be done agentless via sdk, or modified jdbc driver. basic postgres example video here: https://youtu.be/s-skpw7bUfI disclosure: i run a company that built saas on top of the openziti open source.
Been using EdgeDB for ~6 months and it's great. I do wish the documentation was better (more examples please!). I spent more time than should be necessary trying to figure out simple things like NOT NULL, or how to get a backref for a linked table.
There would also be some friction as to having to learn this new ORM language and having to rely on it completely whereas if we just stick to SQL and traditional ORM that is more popular (SQLAlchemy and SQLModel) we could more or less achieve the same level of productivity (Relational Classes in SQLModel) and still be close to the PostgreSQL, using SQL when we want to etc.
Again this is not to bash on EdgeDB just saying its rather tough to have to constantly shift attention to the next shiny thing when the boring way is still a solid ground for majority of use cases.
My first impressions were that this is some type of Prisma + Graph/SQL hybrid language but uncertain about introducing more obfuscation for limited productivity gains that I can find.
What I want to see are large established companies using a tech for a while, not startups.
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Been using EdgeDB for ~6 months and it's great. I do wish the documentation was better (more examples please!). I spent more time than should be necessary trying to figure out simple things like NOT NULL, or how to get a backref for a linked table.
im hesitant to bet the horse against something this young. I can see the allure of it but there are just as many equal me-too ORMs on top of postgres. The idea of graph-relational is interesting but I'm not sure the pain points it describes (having to use JOIN) is enough to get me to use EdgeDB since it's not really an issue for most use cases unless you are doing very complex queries across dozens of tables. There w…
You'll be surprised with how little time it takes to master EdgeQL and how much more you will be able to do with it compared to any ORM in existence or even raw SQL. Give it a try.
Other than that -- use whatever you like best.
I want to build local first software backed by EdgeDB. Similar to these tools: - https://replicache.dev - https://github.com/tantaman/conflict-free-sqlite - https://aphrodite.sh I wonder if EdgeDB provides any utilities to make this already perhaps? Or community has to build some kind of CRDT software that builds on top of EdgeDB that will do local syncing? Maybe that's planned to be tackled for 3.0?
Couchbase-lite seems to do what you're asking. It's backed onto sqlite. It's more sync based than crdt based afaict.
EdgeDB co-founder and CEO here. Ask me anything. We are streaming EdgeDB 2.0 launch event right now, join here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jloGHV31Ow
Will edgedb ever launch frontend querying with JWTs like Supabase, Hasura, Fauna?
We'll be working on tightening and adding the necessary security mechanisms to allow exposing the DB directly to web in 3.0 and onward.
EdgeDB co-founder and CEO here. Ask me anything. We are streaming EdgeDB 2.0 launch event right now, join here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jloGHV31Ow
Will edgedb ever launch frontend querying with JWTs like Supabase, Hasura, Fauna?
You can already hack this by defining access policies and writing an EdgeQL proxy server that authenticates incoming requests, sets the appropriate global, and forwards the query to the database. There's a Python/Flask implementation of this pattern here[0].
We also have a JavaScript example app demonstrating access policies to simplify authorization logic using Next.js/getServerSideProps[1] and a user management platform you may have heard of called Clerk[2] :)
[0] https://github.com/edgedb/edgedb-examples/tree/main/flask-pr...
[1] https://github.com/edgedb/edgedb-examples/blob/main/nextjs-a...