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Have you considered cockroachdb as a backend database? I imagine that although the postgresql emulation of cockroachdb isn't 100% complete, the availability story of cockroachdb is miles ahead of postgresql, so perhaps it might be worth whatever adaptations are necessary.

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Alas, we have to wait until CockroachDB becomes a bit more capable SQL-wise. I gave a more elaborate answer in https://github.com/edgedb/edgedb/discussions/3403.

> To realize the full potential of ... EdgeQL efficiently, we must squeeze every last bit of functionality out of PostgreSQL's implementation

> That said, EdgeDB, the implementation, and EdgeQL, the language and the model, are different, and we encourage research into alternative EdgeQL implementations. We'll be releasing the formal EdgeQL spec and the graph-relational model whitepaper to make this easier.

Has the mentioned spec and model whitepaper been released?

Not yet. Our reference documentation is extremely thorough though, an implementor of an alternative backend should be able to use it.

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