Like most tech marketing pieces, this comes across as very absolutist and preachy -- to the point where its hard to take it seriously. The concept of relational databases (and SQL) are not "failures of engineering", they are among few software innovations that have withstood the test of time.
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#12Currently migrating off a graph database and back to a relational one. It's been a bit of a nightmare. I think there are legitimate use cases for the tech. Yours probably isn't it.
Could you elaborate?
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#13"Why you should build your next app with a graph database"
Please don't. Graph databases have only a few niche use cases which, even then, in most occasions, can be adequately covered by a relational database.
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#14I think the potential for dgraph is really awesome. After doing a survey of various graph databases, they seem to be well positioned for one that has the ability to scale horizontally. This is not something many of the others have. From what I can tell the others require a single write master.
My only gripe with it so far is their documentation could use some updating. The onboarding path isn't real straight forward. I've had to jump around to different parts of the documentation and piece together stuff to get started.
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#15This reads more like a sermon than a technical article.
I had to stop and check if it was satire.
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#16That's like saying, "whatever you're building, you should use a saw to do it." The DB is just a tool. Use the right tool for the job.
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#17I've been looking at Hasura [1] due to the accolades it's gotten on HN. It throws up a GraphQL interface to PostgreSQL.
I wonder if anyone can speak to how Hasura's approach compares to designing an architecture around a pure graph database?
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#18From the article:
"Relational databases: a software engineering fail
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That you were taught relational databases at all is an accident. It's simply that they are an early tech that became widely used, so your teacher knows about them, and, importantly, that they are a dream to teach."
What. Really?
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#19"Relational databases: a software engineering fail" Hard to take this piece seriously with a headline like this.
That tech that quietly gives persistence to most of the software of the world: fail.
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#20From the article: "Relational databases: a software engineering fail ... That you were taught relational databases at all is an accident. It's simply that they are an early tech that became widely used, so your teacher knows about them, and, importantly, that they are a dream to teach." What. Really?
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