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I don't understand the benefit. It's just a query language on top of Postgres? It doesn't seem to have the performance characteristics of a graph database, while acting like it does. JOINS will still be expensive. You guys shouldn't use the word graph, misleading.

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my thoughts exactly...

a graph database is not useful because of its query language, it's useful because of its performance characteristics when bringing linked data — it could never be performant on a Postgres backend.

to be fair, I don't know EdgeDB's architecture but to the degree that a system can bring its graph structures into memory, using PostgreSQL as the durable storage but not for every on-demand query, it can certainly provide fast results. I would assume EdgeDB likely has concepts like this integrated into its design.

I think the idea is to prove the query language more than deliver a database that has graph DB advantages. If they prove the language maybe they can implement a different backend. I'm just guessing here.

> If they prove the language maybe they can implement a different backend.

This is very true and might happen in a far future.

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