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I only glanced through this, but would you say there’s some vague similarities (ignoring the distributed/caching aspects) to Facebook’s TAO here? For example, as a user of this, would I have to care about the Postgres schema, or is that abstracted away from me?

(Tao uses mysql and stores graph data as pretty much key/value pairs, and then a layer on top to query it)

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We fully manage the underlying SQL schema for you, it's abstracted away (which will allow us to pull some tricks when we eventually introduce live schema migrations).

I haven't worked at Facebook so I'm not super familiar with TAO, only heard about it from my friends. But sometimes I pitch EdgeDB as a database with which you don't need to build your own TAO at your company. we give you much more capabilities than a typical database.

There are similarities with TAO and it's not a coincidence. Facebook engineers recognized that a better data abstraction and API was needed for productivity. EdgeDB follows the same logic.

> would I have to care about the Postgres schema, or is that abstracted away from me?

EdgeDB takes care of everything for you. You wouldn't know it's Postgres underneath unless we told you.

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