Our production environment continuously writes to Dgraph, and the write pressure is quite high. When the batch size is large, Dgraph often gets stuck at the WaitForTs function. Would it be possible to mitigate this issue by caching the previous startTS value and using it as a query parameter? (Our r…

You can just reuse old start ts, and it should work. However, using old start ts could cause issues. You could use zero’s api to get a timestamp and then keep using it.

Optimizing Dgraph Write Performance with Cached startTS

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gooohgb (Gooohgb) March 18, 2025, 2:55am 6

Thanks for taking the time to help! Wish you all the best!

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Optimizing Dgraph Write Performance with Cached startTS

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