How can I get random data with DQL

[MichelDiz]

So this was the third request. @hardik maybe we should consider this. A random function isn’t that a big thing.

3 years old request.

[feature request]random pick node

What I want to do is random pick N node to recommend to the user, now I do it in two query, first query the count of node satisfy the requirement, then I calculate a offset randomly, to implement the feature that random recommendation. If there is a query like q(func: ..., random: N) This query will be much faster. Blow is the detail of what I have done now. First, I count all node satisfy the requirement { me as var(func:eq(user_id, %s)) { uname A as university_name total_s…