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📣 ushakov

Is GraphQL the New Blockchain?


I just looked up some GraphQL startups funding on Crunchbase

- Apollo GraphQL: $183.2M

- Hasura: $136.5M

- The Guild: $48M

- Stellate: $30M

Can't believe the numbers. Is the problem they are solving really that big? What’s the investor’s motivation?


  👤 dtagames Accepted Answer ✓
Clickbaty question. Blockchains and query languages (the QL in GraphQL) are not related technologies. Graph QL is just a method of querying SQL databases. Many databases aren't even SQL anymore. Meanwhile, money can be made from many database-related technologies without involving a blockchain.