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Leonardo Losoviz
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Feb 19, 2020 â‹… 7 min read

Simplifying the GraphQL data model

Leonardo Losoviz Freelance developer and writer, with an ongoing quest to integrate innovative paradigms into existing PHP frameworks, and unify all of them into a single mental model.

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2 Replies to "Simplifying the GraphQL data model"

  1. The whole spiel of ‘components’ seemingly has nothing to do with the final solution. You are still loading data as a graph. All you have done is load ALL the edges of the graph with each node. This allows you to more efficiently load the other nodes connected to each node. Again, you have just shifted the problem to the persistence layer where you now must load ALL these edges. Some nodes (think a UserAccount) may have many, many edges which makes this extremely in-efficient. Imagine doing 100s of joins to get all related edges in an RDBMS. A better solution is to load the edges you need in the child resolver then defer loading the actual nodes using a data-loader.

  2. Also, this does not even account for when an edge may not just be a simple foreign key in a relational database table. There could be complex ternary relations etc as well.

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