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by tightbookkeeper 587 days ago
A previous employer thought that sql databases didn’t understand graphs. So they made their own system for serializing/deserializing graphs of objects into Postgres

. They never used queries and instead had their own in-memory operators for traversing the graph, had to solve problems like deleting an entry and removing all references, partial graph updates.

And I still don’t think it works.