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Re:The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company by brianwawok on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @07:43PM (#25936507)
Why do you need a graph database to run a drugstore? You will save hundreds of thousands of dollars in development if you just use postgres...
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Re:The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company by erikpukinskis on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @07:57PM (#25936645)
GraphQL is not a database it’s just a wire protocol. You need a database behind it and Postgres is quite common.

Compare it to JSON:API or GRPC.

With Apollo it also solves a lot of frontend caching and state management problems so you can somewhat use it as an alternative to Redux.

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Re:The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company by juancampa on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @08:07PM (#25936739)
He probably meant a Graphql API in front of the DB (e.g. Hasura)
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Re:The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company by alexosh1 on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @08:47PM (#25937046)
Oops, yeah sorry. Graphql API in front of MySQL
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