Show HN: Micro Graph Database for Python Applications

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What are the long-term plans for dear CogDB?

Is the goal to eventually compete with other graph database offerings ? (OSS and/or proprietary)

Or is it only intended for "micro" workloads.

As an aside, I wonder if anyone has put effort into a graph frontend atop SQLite. Could be interesting.

A very long term plan is to have some sort of cloud offering, although it's quite far out there at this point. The main goal generally is to be a very-easy-to-use, pure python database with minimal third party library dependency (or none if possible) for "micro"/embedded workloads, the database being free and open source as it is currently. Quite a few people have found it useful to use CogDB in Jupyter/Colab notebooks- so that is one area of focus currently. There are some creative ways you can use CogDB as a storage library in web applications that could make it scale for some "reasonable" workloads- this is another area of future exploration. And lastly, GraphQL support is another area of focus.

There is at least one implementation of a graph database (in Python universe) on top of SQLite that I have come across, although I think it was a bit different in terms of features, query language etc

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