EdgeDB is now Gel and Postgres is the future
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EdgeDB is now Gel and Postgres is the future
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Re: EdgeDB is now Gel and Postgres is the future
#2> To oversimplify, Gel to Postgres is what TypeScript is to JavaScript.
I've been using EdgeDB for years (from RethinkDB and MongoDB before that) and it's my favorite database. I don't need to memorize SQL commands and I get a pretty UI to look at my data if my queries introduce issues.
Re: EdgeDB is now Gel and Postgres is the future
#3Co-founder here - AMA.
Re: EdgeDB is now Gel and Postgres is the future
#4Co-founder here - AMA.
Congrats on the rebrand and launch! Biggest reasons to use Gel over Supabase?
Re: EdgeDB is now Gel and Postgres is the future
#5Co-founder here - AMA.
Looks like you changed your site and broke current links. For example, searching for EdgeQL gives me this as the first hit: https://docs.edgedb.com/database/edgeql. That redirects to https://docs.geldata.com/database/edgeql, which is 404.
Re: EdgeDB is now Gel and Postgres is the future
#6Co-founder here - AMA.
Looks like you changed your site and broke current links. For example, searching for EdgeQL gives me this as the first hit: https://docs.edgedb.com/database/edgeql . That redirects to https://docs.geldata.com/database/edgeql , which is 404.
Yeah, we'll be repairing this shortly. FWIW we're completely revamping our documentation, it's almost a full rewrite, focused on bringing clarity and logic to the navigation, improving search, etc. We should fully wrap it up in a week or two.
Re: EdgeDB is now Gel and Postgres is the future
#7Tried many ORMs to get them to work in SQL, but EdgeDB's was the one that worked extremely straightforwardly, literally without any issues that weren't due to not following the instructions.
No bugs, no configuration errors, no nothing. It all just worked. So I think you guys deserve more recognition and credit for what is clearly a very well-engineered product that I intend to use for some of my personal projects.
Re: EdgeDB is now Gel and Postgres is the future
#8Co-founder here - AMA.
It says gel is to Postgres what typescript is to JavaScript, so can I add gel to an existing Postgres instance and get the benefits of the nicer query language or does it rely on special tables? If I use some other extension like timescale is that compatible with gel?
And is there a story for replication/subscribing to queries for real time updates?
Postgres is so powerful partly because of its ecosystem, so I want to know how much of that ecosystem is still useable if I’m using gel on top of Postgres
Re: EdgeDB is now Gel and Postgres is the future
#9Co-founder here - AMA.
Congrats on the rebrand and launch! Biggest reasons to use Gel over Supabase?
Just a user here, but I'd say there are many reasons, one of those reasons is in your name: auth.
GelDB's auth is versatile and doesn't cost a dime, while Supabase auth is only free up until 50,000 monthly active users, then it costs $0.00325 per MAU (> 100k MAU).
I personally just love its query language and the typescript query builder.
Re: EdgeDB is now Gel and Postgres is the future
#10Tried many ORMs to get them to work in SQL, but EdgeDB's was the one that worked extremely straightforwardly, literally without any issues that weren't due to not following the instructions. No bugs, no configuration errors, no nothing. It all just worked. So I think you guys deserve more recognition and credit for what is clearly a very well-engineered product that I intend to use for some of my personal projects.
Have you tried drizzle? If so, what's your beef? (The only one I've had is lack of down-migrations)