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Comment by josefrichter | Hacker News Reader

Is this a potential alternative to graph databases too? How does it compare to them?

If you use a graph database to store application data and you want a strict schema (and potentially improved performance), then YES.

If you use a graph database to run graph algorithms on your data, then NO. Although we'll be working on adding support for recursive queries to EdgeQL in the near future.

Right on. I have been in the position before where I needed to do some graph-like queries (where I had to traverse several levels of joins with the number of joins unknown a priori) but at the same time this was an application storing structured data. I found myself in a tight spot between doing some really clunky Postgres stuff or going the graph DB route. I would have loved to have something that can be used like a relational DB 95% of the time but can still handle that 5% of graph-like queries with reasonable performance and complexity.

maybe have a look at arangodb, I think their value proposition is something like you wrote.

indeed I remember looking at them. this was years ago, and I'm no longer on the project though :)

this is still one of my favorite articles though: https://www.arangodb.com/learn/graphs/time-traveling-graph-d...

> Although we'll be working on adding support for recursive queries to EdgeQL in the near future.

Is there a roadmap I can subscribe to somewhere?

Looking forward to trying this out!

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