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Network Call Minimization

Compared to RAM or SSD access, network calls are slow, so Dgraph is built from the ground up to minimize them. For graph databases which store sub-graphs on different shards, this is difficult or impossible, but predicate-based (relationship-based) sharding allows fast distributed query with Dgraph.

See How Dgraph Minmizes Network Calls for more details.