Hello Dgraph community, I wanted to take the opportunity to introduce myself - I’m Maggie Johnson-Pint , and I am the Vice President of Product and Engineering at Istari Digital - the new stewards of Dgraph. We are thrilled to welcome the Dgraph community to Istari! You can read our official press …

Thank you for the update, great to hear that development continues on Dgraph! Could you clarify the relationship with Hypermode? Will Hypermode still contribute to Dgraph? Also, will GitHub projects and the forum be migrated to an Istari namespace/domain? Looking forward to the next steps.

GitHub assets are migrated back to dgraph-io as we want Dgraph to stay an open-source project with its own place. We are working at moving discuss and hosting the documentation. I let you know asap when doc and discuss have landed.

Which direction is Dgraph going in? Double down on DQL (or other Graph languages)? Fix the GraphQL problems? Push some other product that creates another, yet unneeded GraphQL layer (whatever Hypermode was using)? J

Hi Jonathan, Thanks for the welcome message. Maggie’s team (Engineering) is working on the roadmap for 2026 so we should soon clarify how Dgraph will fit in Istari Digital platform. What is clear now we want Dgraph to be a maintained open source project by its own. We have moved all repositori…

Ok nice. My opinion, at this point I think it is smart to separate GraphQL layer and focus on Dgraph as a Graph database… plenty of needed features there in DQL. Will the cloud hosting come back? Thanks, J

I started to separate GraphQL from the core DB in the doc :slight_smile: No plan for cloud hosting on Istari side. If you have DevOps / Hosting related docs to share you can also send that to me and I’ll see how to include it in the doc. I have some material on my side ( GitHub - rderbier/infra:…

Thanks. I’m honestly never going to self host it, as I’m not a engineer. I never used Dgraph until the Cloud was released. I also never used Modus for the same reason. I don’t want to host another layer outside of my TS backend. I don’t know if I can help much. I hope it does well for that commun…

I totally agree about focusing on Dgraph as a Graph database. There’s a lot to be offered and used when looking at Dgraph as a pure graph database.

I‘d be really happy if you‘d bring dgraph cloud back alive Self Hosting this is way too hard maybe you can team up with fly I have made a forum post there Will Fly offer Dgraph support? - Fly.io

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amaster507 (Anthony Master) October 27, 2025, 9:17pm 4

Interesting, hmm.

When the team has time @maggiepint Id be interested in your take on The Good, The Bad, The Ugly - State of Dgraph

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