EdgeDB Release Candidate 1

The first Release Candidate of EdgeDB has been announced, with a stable 1.0 release expected in the coming weeks. This next-generation open source relational database focuses on developer experience and includes features such as a declarative, object-oriented schema modeling system, a next-generation query language called EdgeQL, and performant first-party database clients for JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and Go. The release also introduces new features like remote instance linking, High Availability Postgres support, global CLI configuration, cardinality assertion, and enforcing distinctness in computed links.