Many of the optimizations used when traversing the graph for SpiceDB are inspired by research in the various dialects of Datalog. At the end of the day, there a

Many of the optimizations used when traversing the graph for SpiceDB are inspired by research in the various dialects of Datalog. At the end of the day, there are very few operations that authorization systems need and it makes more sense to optimized those for folks than give them direct access to Datalog or general purpose graph languages like Gremlin.