EdgeDB is a graph-relational database with declarative schema, built-in migration system, and a next-generation query language.
It takes the best parts of relational databases, graph databases, and ORMs. It inherits the strengths of SQL databases: type safety, performance, reliability, and transactionality. But instead of modeling data in a relational (tabular) way, EdgeDB represents data with object types containing properties and links to other objects. It leverages this object-oriented model to provide a superpowered query language that solves some of SQL’s biggest usability problems.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Schema is treated as object types containing properties connected by links.
- Query language EdgeQL is designed as a ground-up redesign of SQL. EdgeQL queries produce rich, structured objects, not flat lists of rows.
- Full-fledged database with a powerful and elegant query language, a migrations system, a suite of client libraries in different languages, a command line tool, and—coming soon—a cloud hosting platform.
Website: edgedb.com
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: EdgeDB Inc.
License: Apache License 2.0
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