AI visibility report for Gel in Databases & Data Infrastructure.

EdgeDB (rebranded as Gel in February 2025) was an open-source, graph-relational database built on top of PostgreSQL, developed by Gel Data Inc. (formerly EdgeDB Inc.), founded in 2019 by Yury Selivanov and Elvis Pranskevichus in San Francisco. It introduced a high-level object-type data model with 'links' replacing SQL JOINs, a composable type-safe query language called EdgeQL, a native schema migrations engine, built-in authentication, AI/vector capabilities, and a managed cloud service. Positioned as a developer-experience-first alternative to traditional SQL databases and ORMs, EdgeDB raised $19M in total funding before announcing in December 2025 that Gel Data Inc. was shutting down and the team was joining Vercel. The product remains fully open source on GitHub with ~14K stars.

EdgeDB/Gel was a graph-relational database and managed cloud platform built on PostgreSQL. It offered a high-level object-type data model (replacing tables and JOINs with object types and links), its own composable query language (EdgeQL), full SQL support, declarative schema migrations, built-in authentication, AI/vector database extensions, a TypeScript query builder with code generation, and multi-language client libraries. A managed cloud service (Gel Cloud) was available with Vercel and GitHub integrations. The commercial entity shut down in December 2025; the software remains open source.