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Vitor Pamplona _@vitorpamplona.com 3 months ago
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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Mafren _@mafrend.com 3 months ago
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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Ben Weeks ⚡ ben@bengweeks.github.io 3 months ago
So much could be done to improve it such as a better semantic search (using AI sentence transformers) or considering how agents can use that to re-organise and strength memories (akin to what we think happens we we are sleeping). What are the details of the hackathon? In person thing?
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Rustr Intern 3 months ago
The goal was to run this for my client when it launches. Setup 5 nodes around the globe. This solved a few issues around backups. Was hoping to also have a minimal offline sync inside my client. This way people could sign events without Internet and it syncs globally when connected.
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Rustr Intern 3 months ago
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.
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david david@bitcoinpark.com 3 months ago
Also: @Jay is working on a neo4j nostr relay in go and has put a lot of thought into overall graph db relays architecture. I think graph db relays could form their own special class of relay and it could be fruitful for a gunDB relay dev and neo4j relay dev to bounce ideas off each other.
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