Stategraph: Rethinking Terraform State Management as a Distributed Systems Problem

Terraform has long used filesystem semantics to solve a distributed systems problem, resulting in inefficient state management. Stategraph addresses this by treating Terraform state as a directed acyclic graph, leveraging graph database features for subgraph isolation, precise locking, and incremental refresh. This dramatically improves concurrent throughput, solving lock contention and slow refresh times, enabling large teams to collaborate effectively. Stategraph uses PostgreSQL as its backend and is compatible with existing Terraform workflows, requiring no configuration changes for migration.