Dgraph raises $3M for its open-source distributed graph database, hits 1.0 release

Dgraph is an increasingly popular open-source distributed graph database that uses a version of Facebook’s GraphQL as its default query language.“Graph databases that exist today are not truly distributed: they run fine on one node but rely on a variety of architectural hacks to run on multiple nodes, and are thus not scalable,” said Salil Deshpande, managing director at Bain Capital Ventures back in 2016 when the firm announced its participation in the company’s seed round.Current users include gaming services, as well as advertising and financial technology companies that, among other things, use it as part of their fraud detection platforms.Jain tells me he made a very deliberate choice to open source the project — and to do so under the Apache license, which is generally favored by enterprise users.As Jain quipped, the company is building the hosted service for itself because it’s easier to run this for its customers than to try to help them debug every issue in their own, often idiosyncratic, environments.