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Oh man.. graph databases are so cool. Why don't we have any relay powered by a graph database yet? Looks like nostr and graph dbs were made for each other. Also, why the hell no database implements string interning by default? What a lost opportunity of speeding up all string queries.

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I had the same “wow” thought when found out about Graph Databases in the context of social networks. Neo4j has vector similarity search on nodes, if it is powered to a AI RAG system we can generate nice information, content, recommendations (but not overuse it like instagram or tiktok do, since nostr doesn’t want to be like them). Also the relationship “feature” between tables is upgraded on whole new level in Graph Databases compared with traditional sql databases like Oracle where you have to do joins on a middle table to achieve same thing.
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I'm more than happy to continue working on it. I know theres a few issues I have. One being the websocket for read and writes. Sometimes notes don't display properly on my clients feed. I think its a data structure problem in the code. Reformatting the data to fit into graph. I can play with that. As far as follow data I think that would be possible. The relay does have http search functionality. ws for read/write, http for searching data. The http stuff work better than the ws.