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Slater: Low-Memory GraphDB for Read-Heavy Workloads

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from Hacker News ·

Slater is a new open-source graph database designed for low memory usage and read-heavy workloads. It uses a custom storage engine to minimize RAM consumption while maintaining fast query performance. The project is available on GitHub under the Hikari-Systems organization.

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Slater's focus on memory efficiency could make graph databases more accessible for smaller deployments, but its read-optimized design limits use cases.
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