Graph databases facilitate discovery and analysis closely connected facts. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics.

Like other NoSQL databases, a graph database is schema-less. Thus, in terms of performance and flexibility, graph databases hew closer to document databases or key-value stores than they do ...

Graph databases like Neo4J and ArrangoDB are mainly designed to store networks or interconnected nodes, but they often also use NoSQL’s simple model for the data stored at these nodes.

At the high end of the complexity spectrum for NoSQL database lies the graph database, which are highly specialized data stores used for storing linked data. Instead of storing data in rows/columns or ...

Another thing to be aware of is that some graph databases only offer the graph model, but the underlying implementation is backed by a traditional, relational or other type of NoSQL database.

Around the same time as scale-out NoSQL, graph databases emerged. Many things are not “relational” per se, or not based on set theory and relational algebra, but instead on parent-child or ...

Although a global graph database market estimated at $1.9 Billion in 2021 is expected to grow at 22.5% over the next five years, arguments continue on whether NoSQL graph databases are just ...

While relational databases remained strong, the 2000s saw the emergence of XML databases, and NoSQL, the idea that databases didn't need to be structured in a purely tabular form, began to get hot.

Aerospike this week rolled out new graph database offering that leverages open source components, including the TinkerPop graph engine and the Gremlin graph query language. The NoSQL company foresees ...

As graph database adoption accelerates, new data infrastructures will emerge to eliminate many of the scale struggles of graph database models. Written by eWEEK content and product recommendations ...

Imagine a graph database that's not aimed at the growing graph database market, selling to Fortune 500 without sales, and claiming to be the fastest without benchmarks. Dgraph is unique in some ...

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