- Dgraph Blog

Wed, Jul 31, 2019

How Dgraph Labs Raised Series A

by Manish Rai Jain

The blog post by ZDNet made it to HackerNews front page. Do engage in discussion there, and show us love by giving us a GitHub star.

Thu, Mar 7, 2019

The State of Caching in Go

by Manish Rai Jain

Since writing this post, we have built Ristretto: A High Performance Go cache. Read all about it here. This post made it to the top of Golang subreddit and is trending #2 on the front page of Hacker News.

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Wed, Feb 13, 2019

Why Google Needed a Graph Serving System

by Manish Rai Jain

This post made it to #3 on HackerNews front page. Do engage in discussion there and show us love by giving us a GitHub star.

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Thu, Jan 24, 2019

Why we choose Badger over RocksDB in Dgraph

by Manish Rai Jain

At Dgraph, we’re building the most advanced graph database in the world. It does distributed transactions, low-latency arbitrary depth joins, traversals, provides synchronous replication and horizontal scalability — with a simple GraphQL-like API.

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Tue, Apr 3, 2018

Switching Dgraph to a Liberal License

by Manish Rai Jain

Last year, we had switched Dgraph license to AGPLv3.0, considering reasons like the ability to monetize in a competitive environment. In particular,

Tue, Dec 19, 2017

Releasing Dgraph 1.0: Production-Ready Graph Database

by Manish Rai Jain

Dgraph started around end-August, picked up steam in mid-October, and v0.1 was released in early-December, 2015. From one, the contributors grew to 46, with the project amassing over 4000 Github stars over the past two years.

Fri, Dec 1, 2017

Open Source Alternative to Amazon Neptune

by Manish Rai Jain

Amazon just announced their new graph database service, called Amazon Neptune. As per a TechCrunch article, Amazon Neptune has been optimized to handle billions of relationships and run queries within milliseconds.

Thu, Oct 5, 2017

Concurrent ACID Transactions in Badger

by Manish Rai Jain

When we started working on Badger, the aim was to keep things stupid simple. We needed to get rid of Cgo from Dgraph codebase, while also building something which can perform really well.

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Tue, Oct 3, 2017

[Opinion] SQL is not beating NoSQL. NoSQL is evolving.

by Manish Rai Jain

Ajay Kulkarni, the co-founder of Timescale DB wrote an article about “Why SQL is beating NoSQL,” which became an instant hit.

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