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Dgraph has the potential to become a defacto standard for GraphQL powered DBs
- niftich 10y agoI wrote before [1] that GraphQL's true potential will be realized only once databases start understanding it natively. This way, the DB's internal query planner can figure out what data to retrieve -- just like SQL -- and the developer doesn't need to hack together some bespoke translation layer between the GraphQL server and the DB that wrestles with the impedance mismatch between APIs. If they can craft their messaging to fit this narrative, they can achieve as much success as Mongo did when they rode the NoSQL hype and the unrelated Node.js wave to great effect. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12499727#12501503 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12499727#12501503