Postgres is a relational database not a graph database.[1] Neo4j and OrientDB are true graph databases. You can build a graph DB on top of a RDMS but it is not

Postgres is a relational database not a graph database.[1] Neo4j and OrientDB are true graph databases. You can build a graph DB on top of a RDMS but it is not inherent in the system. With that said, GraphQL is a misnomer anyway. It's not really about graphs. It allows you to have a query syntax that lets you easily query related and nested objects but it doesn't have the concepts of directed edges and nodes like you have in a graph unless you explicitly code it. [1] unless they added a feature that I was not aware of and couldn't find in the 30 seconds I spent googling