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1st1 on Feb 10, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: EdgeDB 1.0

EdgeDB is built on top of Postgres. The performance critical bits are either Python compiled to C with Cython or Rust, so there's almost no Python overhead.

We perform quite favorably in benchmarks, see our old blog post with some: https://www.edgedb.com/blog/edgedb-1-0-alpha-2#results

> Is 1.0 your MVP?

EdgeDB is ready for production and is light years ahead of its first technical preview MVP release published a few years ago.

pier25 on Feb 10, 2022 [–]

Would be interesting to know how it fares against Prisma which is becoming pretty popular these days.

gazpacho on Feb 10, 2022 | [–]

and to get updated benchmarks in general

1st1 on Feb 10, 2022 | | [–]

Working on that!

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