Dgraph Goes Honey Badger

in #database2 years ago

In my last post, there was a bit of talk about a new tool for the Rising Star community:
https://hivel.ink/hive-131619/@foxon/testing-some-new-functionality-for-hive-engine-games-rising-star-shopping-for-now

That site is powered by Go and a Dgraph database - I'll speak much more about it soon. The Go library I'm working on is a ton of fun and very fast. Dgraph is a graph native database founded by an ex Googler

There will be much more written about my project, but it's not quite to a place where I'm ready to talk about it here

So why am I talking here today?


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(source: https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/quitting-dgraph-labs/16702)

The founder and lead builder of Dgraph left... and the engineers are going with him. After the board wanted to shut it down and liquidate, the workers refused and started looking for alternatives. They weren't permitted to open source the proprietary portions of the code base. Investments weren't coming in - so they fired the board!

I love it

My favorite database choice for powering Hive dapps in the future (can't have everything on SQL and @blocktrades is already doing that EXTREMELY well with HAF. I just like diversity) has fired their corporate overlords and is moving on without them. Amazing

Bonus fun - they never hinted toward blockchain, decentralization, or web3. When I sat down with my decades of database experience and looked at everything out there, I decided on Dgraph purely on the merits of how it was built, who was building it, and what it could do. Just have a look at their new site's front page:


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(source: https://outcaste.io/)

Kismet

Hoping all the best for Outcaste, Inc. They've been working on some amazing software that has been flying ridiculously under the radar, they were abused by their corporate overlords, fired them, and are striking out with their engineers and open source software to enable web3

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Wooow! The fighting spirit, independence and abnegation of Manish and the other "Dgraph Labs" devs are admirable... Thanks for bringing this to our attention!

Do you think, @foxon , there could be a partial solution to the "Outcaste" financement needs being designed and fed from the Hive ecosystem? I've seen so many posts and podcasts in this platform exploring the potential for Hive based DAOs slowly replacing centralized VCs (like here: https://peakd.com/hive-181335/@spknetwork.chat/ewonuygv), that it'd be a shiny and very helpful use case for those ideas and energies 😃.

I think it's a good solution for some, and will become more popular, but Manish has a pretty big network already. So in this specific case, I think it'd have to be treated as an extra effort where he already knows quite a few VCs and people in the Eth space

Hope we won’t wait long to read more about your project.

Yay! 🤗
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